Five days ago, we announced the news of a preview screening of Jia Zhangke’s latest feature film 24 City on our website. The reason that Shao Foundation and Xstream Pictures organised and sponsored this free screening is to provide context for our second CROSSTALK Beijing event, a panel discussion scheduled for Feb 28. Titled ‘Reflection of Times: From Industrialisation to Urbanisation’, this event is part of our exhibition ‘Jia Zhangke: 24 City’, which is going to run from Feb 23 to March 8. Since the film won’t be screened publicly until March 6, we assume that most potential audience of both the exhibition and the discussion wouldn’t have watched it by Feb 28. This is gonna create difficulties for them, as they will be participating in a discussion on something that they hardly know.
After negotiation, we managed to secure a 102-seat hall in Megabox cinema at The Village, Sanlitun for the preview screening. The 102-minute film is scheduled 2.5 hours before CROSSTALK Beijing, so that the audience will be able to walk at a casual pace to BAMA gallery, where the discussion will take place.
We realised that 102 seats is not many, but we’ve apparently underestimated people’s enthusiasm for Jia’s film—registration emails have been swarming in at a speed so fast that, as of today, all seats have been filled.
We are sorry that we couldn’t make the preview screening available to more people. If, however, you don’t mind joining in the discussion and seeing the exhibition before watching the film, you are still encouraged to go to CROSSTALK Beijing on Feb 28, and to see the exhibition itself.
You can find all the info about these events on our website.
hi, pls give me 2 seats for me and my bf .we both like Jia Zhaoke very much!