(Flick Flight Flimsy) Ernest Fenollosa
In the parks in China, people practice Tai Chi, English and Chinese. Each in his language space is trying to see into the others' space. Someone is embroidering the Chinese word 'wen,' which means language or culture. Machines make marks that look like language. A poet and a sinologist talk about Ernest Fenollosa, whose essay, 'The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry ' has been an inspiration to poets and an embarrassment to sinologists. Part of HEAP, a series of experimental portraits of Westerners who have studied, imagined, loved, and misunderstood China.
- Runtime
- 10m
- Released
- 2006
Details
Release year: 2006
Storyline
In the parks in China, people practice Tai Chi, English and Chinese. Each in his language space is trying to see into the others' space. Someone is embroidering the Chinese word 'wen,' which means language or culture. Machines make marks that look like language. A poet and a sinologist talk about Ernest Fenollosa, whose essay, 'The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry ' has been an inspiration to poets and an embarrassment to sinologists. Part of HEAP, a series of experimental portraits of Westerners who have studied, imagined, loved, and misunderstood China.