BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:10076@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:To Dive X Ventilator DTSTAMP:20261008T222826Z DTSTART:20251017T133000Z DTEND:20251017T190000Z DESCRIPTION:Chinese\, Drama\, Action\,Yu-Xuan Wang\, Helena Hsu\, Roy Chang \, Asian Records: The\nB-Side of Youth15:30 - 21:00 hrs€ 12 / €7\,50 & €5\ ,50\n\nPart I: Feature Film Screening\n\n15:30–15:35: Opening remarks & fe ature film introduction\n15:35–17:15: Feature film screening\n17:15–17:40: Post-screening Q&A with the director\n17:40–18:10: Intermission\n\n- Feat ure Film :《Little Blue》(96min)\n\nXiao Lan's first sexual experience is at the beach with Wu Miao\, but when he\nloses interest\, she turns to men o n the Internet for comfort. This is a journey\nthat every girl is destined to embark on at the crossroads between sex and love.\n\nPart II: Short Fi lm Collection\n\n18:10–18:15: Opening remarks & curatorial introduction\n1 8:15–19:55: Short film collection screening\n19:55–20:15: Post-screening Q &A with the director\n\nShort Film Collection:\n\n《No More Gravity At Nigh t》(27min):\n\nIn an abandoned cement yard in the southern suburbs\, a grou p of workers living\nin a utopian memory plot a "demolition" to make a qui ck buck. Chen Qing\, a young\nboy among the workers\, hopes to use his act ions and even sacrifice himself in\norder to take his uncle away from this place\, in order to wake up his young\nheroic uncle. At night\, his relat ionship with his uncle had become subtly close\,\nrigid\, and broken\, and his quicksand memory was like this dusty cement factory\,\neventually bur ied in dust.\n\n《HANNYA》(11min):\n\n《HANNYA》 portrays the sexual fantasy o f a dance hall girl\, using striking\nvisuals to highlight contrasts. Roy falls in love with a man and\, through\nsecretly watching him being intima te with other women\, becomes entangled in a\nstruggle between desire and illusion.\n\n《Fly Me To The Sea》(28min):A Danjia girl\, who grew up on the sea\, has gills\ninside her body that allow her to breathe underwater and dive deep for extended\nperiods. Swept up by the great tide of ‘moving as hore’ in contemporary China\,\nshe leaves the ocean as an adult to work at a local clothing factory in Lotus\nMountain. Can she adapt to life on lan d?\n\n《Wild Bird》(23min):In a northern town buried under heavy snow\, ever yone tacitly\nabides by one rule: silence. He Yishan cannot understand why birds are allowed\nto sing\, but people are forbidden to speak.\n\nAnimat ed Short Film:\n\n《How I Grew Up》 (7 min):\n\nThere are many unnoticed emo tions within us. In this film\, “I” experience a fear\nof being suspected by others\, triggered by something as trivial as an unthrown\ncup of coffe e. The story revolves around observing this emotion: through four\nsmall e pisodes of growing up\, its roots are traced\, until finally “I” come face \nto face with the emotion itself. URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/to-dive-x-ventilator GEO:52.3601403;4.8656923 LOCATION:OT301 - Overtoom 301\, 1054 HW Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:action,amsterdam-west,chinese,dance,drama,film,opening,q&a,stori es,vondelparkbuurt X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Chinese, Drama, Action,Yu-Xuan Wang, Helena Hs u, Roy Chang, Asian Records: The B-Side of Youth15:30 - 21:00 hrs€ 12 / €7 ,50 & €5,50

Part I: Feature Film Screening

15:30–15:35: Opening remarks & featu re film introduction
15:35–17:15: Feature film screen ing
17:15–17:40: Post-screening Q&A with the dire ctor
17:40–18:10: Intermission

< p>- Feature Film :《Little Blue》< /strong>(96min)

Xiao Lan's first sexual experience is at t he beach with Wu Miao, but when he loses interest, she turns to men on the Internet for comfort. This is a journey that every girl is destined to em bark on at the crossroads between sex and love.

Par t II: Short Film Collection

18:10–18:15: Opening remarks & curatorial introduction
18:15–1 9:55: Short film collection screening
19:55–20:15: Post-screening Q&A with the director

Short Film Collection:

《No More Gravity At Night》(27min):

In an abandoned cement yard in the southern suburbs, a group of workers living in a utopian memory plot a "demolition" to make a quick buck. Chen Qing, a young boy among the workers, hopes to use his actions and even sacrifice himself in order to take his uncle away from this place , in order to wake up his young heroic uncle. At night, his relationship w ith his uncle had become subtly close, rigid, and broken, and his quicksan d memory was like this dusty cement factory, eventually buried in dust.

《HANNYA》(11min):

《HANNYA》 portrays the sexual fantasy of a dance hall girl, using striking visuals to highlight contras ts. Roy falls in love with a man and, through secretly watching him being intimate with other women, becomes entangled in a struggle between desire and illusion.

《Fly Me To The Sea》(28min):A Danjia girl, who grew up on the sea, has gills inside her body that allow her to breathe underwater and dive deep for extended periods. Swept up by the gre at tide of ‘moving ashore’ in contemporary China, she leaves the ocean as an adult to work at a local clothing factory in Lotus Mountain. Can she ad apt to life on land?

《Wild Bird》(23min):In a north ern town buried under heavy snow, everyone tacitly abides by one rule: sil ence. He Yishan cannot understand why birds are allowed to sing, but peopl e are forbidden to speak.

Animated Short Film:

《How I Grew Up》 (7 min):

There are many unnoti ced emotions within us. In this film, “I” experience a fear of being suspe cted by others, triggered by something as trivial as an unthrown cup of co ffee. The story revolves around observing this emotion: through four small episodes of growing up, its roots are traced, until finally “I” come face to face with the emotion itself.

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