VPES Invite: Electric Shadows - Scenes of City Life

June 16, 1904
(today is Bloomsday)

Nice kind of evening feeling. No more wandering about. Just loll there: quiet dusk: let everything rip. Forget. Tell about places you have been, strange customs. The other one, jar on her head, was getting the supper: fruit, olives, lovely cool water out of the well stonecold like the hole in the wall at Ashtown.

She listens with big dark soft eyes. Tell her: more and more: all. Then a sign: silence. Long long long rest.

    Going under the railway arch he took out the envelope, tore it swiftly in shreds and scattered them towards the road. The shreds fluttered away, sank in the dank air: a white flutter then all sank.

- James Joyce, Ulysses

Scenes of City Life《都市風光》
Friday & Saturday June 4th & 5th, 2021 - 8:00 PM
$16 General Admission / $12 VPES Members
 

The second iteration in the Velaslavasay Panorama's 20th Anniversary film screening series Electric Shadows On Penglai Mountain, we present the 1935 film Scenes of City Life.

Scenes of City Life 都市風光》is a 1935 comedy-drama set in Shanghai that tells the story of an enamored novelist in a love triangle with the pawnshop owner's daughter and a wealthy business man. A cultural study of mass entertainment and visual media in 1930s Shanghai—featuring animation, still photographs, advanced cinematography and a peepshow—it is the debut film of iconic Director Yuan Muzhi, the "man with a thousand faces."

Presented in collaboration with The Livonian Cinema

Scenes of City Life 《都市風光》will be screened outdoors with limited seating. Guests can visit Shengjing Panorama, a 360-degree painting of Shenyang, China circa 1910-1930, before & after the screening. Doors will open at 8pm, and the movie will begin at 8:30pm. We recommend bringing a blanket to stay warm throughout the night.

This screening is made possible through support from the Velaslavasay Panorama Enthusiast Society.
Directed by Yuan Muzhi / Starring Lu Bai, Jiang Qing & Na Tang / Cinematography Yinxian Wu / Diantong Film Company / Mandarin with English subtitles

Photo: Forest Casey, for Spring In A Small Town

As a VPES member you are notified in advance of Velaslavasay Panorama events like the series
- Electric Shadows on Penglai Mountain -