CIFA (the Chinese Independent Film Archive) has recently helped restore The Crack, a low-budget independent film made on 35mm, which has been screened only four times to a small circle in China since its completion in 2000. This semi-autobiographical film, set during the Cultural Revolution, provides the missing link between the roots-seeking and scar literature and art of the 1980s and the performance art of the 1990s and 2000s. It grounds many of the embodied extremes of China’s famous performance art in the persistent psychosexual fetishes and neuroses produced by the extreme denial of individual desire under “mass line” socialism.

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Kris and her partially disabled uncle run a derelict farm together. Their quirky yet loving relation...

The darkness of postnatal depression threatens to overwhelm Susannah, but a chance encounter with Ru...

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A queer teenager struggles with her sexuality, as desires manifest their way from the depths of her ...

A fourteen-year old girl communicates with a spider in a dark basement, without knowing the time and...

Some friends gather to do a robbery from a jewelry store. They succeed but it does not go on the way...

The life of a musician and an ophthalmologist couple who face difficulties in the relationship.

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A just married couple travels to north of Iran to stay in a villa for their honeymoon. The fearful t...

A man flirts with a woman with no arms at a 24/7 burger house, as she uses him to feed her. With eac...

Alice, a young woman living in Northern France. finds mysterious tapes with people narrating their n...