{"id":18261,"date":"2012-08-30T14:37:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T21:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/?p=18261"},"modified":"2019-04-26T12:41:30","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T19:41:30","slug":"24-city-jia-zhang-ke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2012\/08\/30\/24-city-jia-zhang-ke\/","title":{"rendered":"24 City &#8211; Jia Zhang Ke"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/34-aVx6Qa_8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/24_City\">24 city<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rvQclf8ELCE\">See full film here <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The film follows three generations of characters in Chengdu (in the 1950s, the 1970s and the present day) as a state-owned factory gives way to a modern apartment complex.<br \/>\nThe apartment complex featured in the film is an actual development (also called &#8220;24 City&#8221;) built on the former site of an airplane engine manufacturing facility. Jia will also produce a documentary about the location.<br \/>\nThe film&#8217;s narrative style is described by critics as a blend of fictional and documentary storytelling, and it consist of five authentic interviews and four fictional scenes delivered by actors (but presented in a documentary format.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/JaonChen24.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/JaonChen24.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"JaonChen24\" width=\"627\" height=\"396\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/JaonChen24.jpg 627w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/JaonChen24-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJoan Chen (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fandor.com\/blog\/mixing-and-manipulating-chinas-history-jia-zhangkes-24-city\">Photo via 24 City &#8211; Mixing and manipulating Chinese History <\/a>) <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/film\/2010\/apr\/29\/24-city-review\">Peter Bradshaw <\/a>(Guardian) <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> His most sensational &#8220;fictional&#8221; interview is with a beautiful, lonely factory worker, who is nicknamed Little Flower on the shopfloor, because of her resemblance to the eponymous heroine of a popular 1980 film. The heroine of that genuine film was played by Joan Chen and this character is played by &#8230; Joan Chen. Using such an obviously famous star in my view exonerates Jia from the charge of dishonesty. It&#8217;s an extraordinarily audacious, even outrageous casting gesture, a day-glo post-modern joke amidst the dour factory dust: an alienation effect which is also its opposite, an identification effect, a way of dramatising how downtrodden factory workers dreamed of glamorous escape, of lives other than the ones they had.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Early film &#8211; 1997<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"520\" height=\"400\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jPMIFFKc9m4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jia Zhang Ke <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/jiazhangke1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/jiazhangke1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"jiazhangke\" width=\"397\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/jiazhangke1.jpg 397w, https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/jiazhangke1-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/avaxhome.ws\/video\/genre\/art_house\/unkpleasures_by_jzk.html\">photo via <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cPart of the reason I started making films was to respond to cinema\u2019s blind spots, its silences, on the kind of life I knew. I wanted to express all the memorable things that I had experienced, and I think this is still my primary responsibility as a filmmaker.\u201d \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/mubi.com\/t-opics\/cinema-21-jia-zhangke\">Jia Zhangke (MUBI) <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The quest for memory &#8211; documentary &#8211; (<a href=\"http:\/\/sensesofcinema.com\/2011\/feature-articles\/the-quest-for-memory-documentary-and-fiction-in-jia-zhangke%E2%80%99s-films\/\">Senses of Cinema<\/a>) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 city See full film here The film follows three generations of characters in Chengdu (in the 1950s, the 1970s and the present day) as a state-owned factory gives way to a modern apartment complex. The apartment complex featured in the film is an actual development (also called &#8220;24 City&#8221;) built on the former site &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/2012\/08\/30\/24-city-jia-zhang-ke\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;24 City &#8211; Jia Zhang Ke&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,3,1,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-cinema","category-culture","category-real-cities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}