Houston Community News >> MFAH To Screen Imagining

3/29/2008 Houston, TX-- The MFAH will screen the special presentation, Imagining China, on Saturday, April 5 at 7 p.m. in the Brown Auditorium Theater in the MFAH’s Caroline Wiess Law Building, 1001 Bissonnet Street. This series of short films by local filmmakers, coordinated by the Southwest Alternate Media Project (SWAMP), was inspired by the “China” and “Transformations” themes of FotoFest 2008 and was selected by a professional jury. The filmmakers have been invited to attend and introduce their work. For more information, the public can call 713-639-7515.

Photo courtesy of the filmmaker, Peng Tao
(Photo courtesy of the filmmaker, Peng Tao)

A list of the short films showcased in the series is below:

WINNERS

ADULT - Transformation
Basic Wire and Cable - by Chuck Ivy
Clean 2 - by Sarah Sudhoff
Environmental Justive in the USA - by Tammy Crover-Campbell
The Fall - by Adam Cruces
Lover of the Lord - by Jack Otis Moore
Mitosis Remix - by I-AoI
Reveal - by Travis Reed

ADULT - Imagining China
Chinaaah! - by Jeanie Low and Stephanie Saint Sanchez
China Hot: Factory 798 - by Quin Matthews

YOUTH - Transformation
Andrea and Ann Present Farggeano - by Andrea Wistuba & Ann Henson
The Buggie - by Katy Bogar, Sophie Creede & Caroline Galliano
The Green Transforming Blob - by Rick Gordon, Adarsh Nednvr, Sydney Tidwell & Vostice Magourick-Baker
Mix and Match - by Brea Aikens, Imogen Van Der Werff & Taylor Russo
Origami - by Christian Behrend
Siddhartha - by Kate Montgomery
Solved - by Bo Kim and Corey Martin
The Walking Water - by Dylan Siemann

YOUTH - Imagining China
Bridge to Dragonithia - by Maddy Lopez, Maryanne Sapon, Athena Rodriguez, Acara Turner, Mary Margaret Worley & Rory Summe

That same weekend, the MFAH’s Pan-Chinese Cinema Now series—presented in collaboration with FotoFest 2008: China and Transformations and curated by Cheng-Sim Lim of the UCLA Film & Television Archive—closes with Little Moth (China, 2007). Little Moth is indie filmmaker Peng Tao’s first film, about the sale of a disabled girl who joins a “nuclear family” to beg on the street. Begging, however, turns out to be an organized racket. The film will screen on Friday, April 4 and Sunday, April 6, both at 7 p.m., in the Brown Auditorium Theater in the MFAH’s Caroline Wiess Law Building, 1001 Bissonnet Street.