A retrospective in this year’s Rotterdam Film Festival is dedicated to China’s Qiu Jiongjiong, one of the world’ most innovative artists and filmmakers, with a series of films and an exhibition. Intimate memory and national history resonate in Qiu’s baroque rhapsodies of music and design.
Six of his films are presented, including his latest masterwork A New Old Play. Its overview of China from the 1930s to the 1980s, filtered through the semi-fictionalised life of a Sichuan opera star, won the Special Jury Prize at the 74th Locarno Film Festival; the film was supported in development by IFFR’s Hubert Bals Fund. The accompanying exhibition Qiu Jiongjiong: A Play with Paintings, Drawings and Manuscriptsdisplays different stages of Qiu’s creative process.
Madame, Qiu Jiongjiong, 2010, China, European premiere
The Moon Palace, Qiu Jiongjiong, 2007, China, international premiere
My Mother’s Rhapsody, Qiu Jiongjiong, 2011, China
A New Old Play, Qiu Jiongjiong, 2021, China
Ode to Joy, Qiu Jiongjiong, 2008, China
Portrait of Mr. Huang, Qiu Jiongjiong, 2009, China
ROTTERDAM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | 27 JANUARY – 5 FEBRUARY 2022