Im/Perfect Modernisms Film Series: Red Sorghum (1987)

October 2024 through January 2025, join us for the Im/Perfect Modernisms Film Series. Four films will be screened throughout the run of the exhibition, offering new perspectives on the cultural contexts and artistic communities in Japan, India, China, and Cambodia that produced many of the works on view.

Red Sorghum (1987)

“Based on Nobel Prize-winning author Mo Yan’s novel, Red Sorghum is a landmark in contemporary Chinese cinema and culture. The film blends the stories of three generations of a family with their region’s journey through feudalism, war, and revolution while focusing on the struggles of a young woman sent by her father to marry the leprous owner of a winery. She falls for one of his servants in the nearby red sorghum fields. When the master dies, she finds herself inheriting the isolated business.”

The Im/Perfect Modernisms Film Series

• October 5: When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
• November 16: Duvidha (1973)
• December 7: Red Sorghum (1987)
• January 18: Golden Slumbers (2011)