�Zweig's films are dense, proleptically seductive, and�enigmatic. They are unabashedly experimental,�� - Thomas Zummer

The Dutch diplomat and sinologist Robert van Gulik (1910-1967 wrote books on Chinese culture, including studies of the �Chinese lute� and the gibbon, a small ape native to China. .His mystery novels, starring Judge Dee, are based on Chinese detective fiction, modified for a Western audience. This video is about an attempt to learn to be Chinese - earnest and eager, failing and sometimes hitting one right note. Texts spoken in English seem to appear on the screen in Chinese, but the Chinese text tells another story and the mystery remains unsolved.

• Producer(s): Ellen Zweig
• Writer(s): Ellen Zweig
• Actor(s): Dwight Frizzell; Cui Yongming; John Thompson; Alan Sondheim

• Music: John Thompson; Sound Design: Ron MacLeod; Cinematography: Ellen Zweig and Weidong Liu

• Thailand New Media Festival 2004

Experimental , Silent Films

China , Writers

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