Frozen
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Wu Ming
Jia Hongshen
Ma Xiaoqing
Bai Yu
Li Geng
Bai Yefu
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Shot in 1994, just five years after the Tiananmen Square incident, and based on a true story... A look at the avant-garde art world of modern Beijing. A youg performance artist tests his limits, and finally makes his own suicide his last work of art. On the longest day of the year, he melts a huge block of ice with his own body heat and dies of hypothermia. He calls this act of defiance "Ice Burial."
Director
Wu Ming
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States 1997
Released in United States August 1997
Released in United States March 1998
Released in United States March 25, 1998
Released in United States Spring March 20, 1998
Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival (in competition)January 29 - February 9, 1997.
Shown at San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival March 5-12, 1998.
"Frozen" is a Chinese independent production made without government approval by a director who was forced, by the country's rigid film laws, to work under the pseudonym Wu Ming, which literally means "No Name." As of 1996 Chinese legislation prohibits independent filmmaking.
Released in United States 1997 (Shown at Rotterdam International Film Festival (in competition)January 29 - February 9, 1997.)
Released in United States March 1998 (Shown at San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival March 5-12, 1998.)
Released in United States Spring March 20, 1998
Released in United States March 25, 1998 (Cinema Village; New York City)
Released in United States August 1997 (Shown in Los Angeles (James Bridges Theater) as part of program "Electric Shadows '97: A Pan-Asian Film Festival" August 1997.)
