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PATCHING is the metaphoric intermingling of a journey, a flat tire, a break-up and tips for getting back on the road. PATCHING is the second tape in a series known as BICYCLE DIARIES.

Multimedia artist Jiang Zhi's ninth video art film. From his website: "This work...is taken when I begged outside a supermarket. Begging is a way of collecting people’s responses towards major event and attitude about international affairs."

Adventure of a Japanese boy who wanders in France where the violence of a strange environment and strange language penetrate his mind and he starts to have incoherent illusions. What happens to the boy between illusions printed in him and tyrannically cruel reality? The work was animated with 6,000 wood block prints to express the gaps and shakes of megalomaniac illusions.

This love story is set against the backdrop of the mountains and great plateau of Tibet. By focusing on a military commander and a female soldier during the 1950 march by the People's Liberation Army into Tibet, the film chronicles the hardships of the time and the hope and patriotism of the new China.

A forbidden movie. It's difficult to live with humans because it's difficult to fall silent.

Cinema, Lautréamont, poetry, music, and unexpected meetings are my mirrors.

Fiction film about a young migrant worker who struggles to live an honest life in the city.