ADELAIDE PREMIERE MUSIC | FILM AUSTRALIA | CHINA
WHEN
Mindy Meng Wang A global lockdown brought on by an unflinching, unpredictable, and isolating pandemic created a collective and universal experience: separation from friends, family, and partners. In When, Chinese Australian musician, composer, and performer Mindy Meng Wang creates a poignant and emotional audio-visual meditation on family, memories, and life in times of great change. With musicians Anita Quayle and Daniel Jenatsch, Mindy shares personal, undisclosed stories between her hometown of Lanzhou, Wuhan and her new home of Melbourne, humanising the profound upheaval that comes from a worldwide pandemic. The ancient guzheng, electric cello, and synthesizer provide a powerful musical response to footage collected by Chinese and Australian filmmakers, delving deeply into our shared feelings of love, regret, fear, desire, and relief that emerge despite barriers of race, distance, or culture.
NEXUS ARTS FRI 4 NOV SAT 5 NOV
8pm + Q&A 6pm & 8pm
ADULT CONCESSION
$35 $30
DURATION
QR code
24
60 mins
