New York: MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Los Angeles: The Downtown Independent co-presented with Los Angeles Filmforum
Chicago: Facets
San Diego: Media Arts Center San Diego
Seattle: Grand Illusion Cinema
San Francisco: Asia Society Northern California
Rochester: George Eastman House International Museum of Photography & Film
and more: http://icarusfilms.com/playdates.html
Filmed over three years on China’s railways, THE IRON MINISTRY (NYFF14) traces the vast interiors of a country on the mov...
New York: MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Los Angeles: The Downtown Independent co-presented with Los Angeles Filmforum
Chicago: Facets
San Diego: Media Arts Center San Diego
Seattle: Grand Illusion Cinema
San Francisco: Asia Society Northern California
Rochester: George Eastman House International Museum of Photography & Film
and more: http://icarusfilms.com/playdates.html
Filmed over three years on China’s railways, THE IRON MINISTRY (NYFF14) traces the vast interiors of a country on the move: flesh and metal, clangs and squeals, light and dark, language and gesture. Scores of rail journeys come together into one, capturing the thrills and anxieties of social and technological transformation. THE IRON MINISTRY immerses audiences in fleeting relationships and uneasy encounters between humans and machines on what will soon be the world's largest railway network.
"The best film about China in the twenty-first century that I’ve seen to date—was made by an American, J.P. Sniadecki, known for his work with Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab. Following PEOPLE'S PARK (2012) and YUMEN (2013), both documentaries on contemporary China that Sniadecki co-directed, THE IRON MINISTRY compiles three years of footage shot during rides on China’s extensive railway system. A cow stomach is sliced into edible bits; a man puffs on a bamboo cigar-holder between compartments; the filthy floor is lined with cigarette butts and sleeping human bodies; a precocious little boy sarcastically encourages the crowd to piss and shit in the aisles." —Travis Jeppesen, Artforum
THE IRON MINISTRY is part of the dGenerate Films Collection at Icarus Films. To bring this film to your audience, contact rentals@icarusfilms.com