Curated by Fang Zhang (2016-2017 Hughes Scholar at the Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies), CIUM’s annual film series “Electric Shadow” for the fall 2018 presents the most celebrated Chinese artists’ thought-provoking films. All CIUM events are free and open to the public.

Synopsis:
The camera apathetically zooms in Mrs. Fang’s ghostly face, her mouth held open in a rigid grimace. Having suffered from Alzheimer's for eight years, Fang Xiuying is now bedridden and surrounded by her relatives and neighbors, as they accompany her through her last days. “Mrs. Fang” depicts a shockingly raw and merciless portrait of Mrs. Fang’s final days. Unarguably the best work of Director Wang Bing, “Mrs. Fang” was honored with Golden Leopard at the 2017 Locarno Festival.

About Director Wang Bing:
A graduate of Beijing Film Academy, Wang Bing is a well​-​known ​cinematographer in China, famous for his talent of chronicling the everyday lives of peasants, laborers, and drifters. ​Most of his protagonists are marginalized, abandoned, and desperate​ people​, through which Wang tries to document the raw, brutal, but earnest humanism through his camera lens. His most well-known films are The Ditch (2010), Three Sisters (2012), and West of the Tracks (2002).