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Lana Lin

No Power to Push Up the Sky

  • Documentary
RELEASE

2001-10-06

BUGET

N/A

LENGTH

23 min

Description

For No Power to Push Up the Sky, fifteen people translate an interview with student protest leader Chai Ling conducted in Beijing on May 28, 1989, one week before the Tiananmen Square massacre. The video positions translation as interpretive and demonstrates the complex process of locating meaning across language, culture, and politics.

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