Yum Cha Cha
48 minutes, 2003 DVCAM/Beta SP, Australia By Boyd Britton

In the late 1940s, Nancy King was emerging as one of China’s most promising landscape artists. However, on the brink of her professional debut, she suddenly withdrew from the art community and over time her name faded into anonymity. In 1988, after a 35-year hiatus, she resurfaced in Sydney and has since developed a profound connection to the Australian people and the landscape. Yum Cha Cha explores Nancy’s passion for Australia and Western culture through painting and also ballroom dancing – a pastime that has taken the Chinese-Australian community by storm. Nancy talks about growing up in China, her search for a creative freedom not allowed by the Cultural Revolution and the tragedies that forestalled the realization of her dreams.

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Yellow Ox Mountain
25 minutes, 2006 miniDV, China/USA By Miao Wang Northwest Premiere Documentary Short Competition Asia Docs Series

China is a country where dissenting voices have been systematically purged and propaganda efficiently woven into every aspect of life. This inescapably politically and culturally turbulent atmosphere stipulated a contemporary Chinese artists’ diaspora to New York City. Yellow Ox Mountain reflects on the artistic and personal transformations of two such Chinese artists, Zhang Hongtu and Zhang Jian-Jun. Their lives and work span from the post-Cultural Revolution political environment of China to today’s thriving Chinese contemporary art community of New York.

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