Mr Zhang Believes

Zhang Xianchi is a man thrown into the Cultural Revolution and its afterimage plunged into the ideological deadlocks of the era and suffering its consequences beyond it Born into a family that supports the nationalist Kuomintang Zhang eventually became a leftist and joined the Communist Party But his familys background eventually catches up with him and in a series of bureaucratic measures he is labelled as a Rightist leading to a slew of irrational yet lifeaffecting consequences His story is told through an exhilarating hybrid of forms blending documentarystyled interviews and spectral theatrical displays within an evermutating studiospace Hypnagogic in its imagery and ironic in attitude Mr Zhang Believes is a tourdeforce treatise of a man caught within dogmatic political maneuverings which it critiques indirectly with creative and stoic fervour