Abstract
ABSTRACTWhile the history of independent documentary film production in China has illuminated many of the challenges faced by Chinese film-makers, the question of independent documentary film festivals has been less directly considered. This article examines how films are seen and discussed in the context of one such festival — the 2011 Yunnan Multi Culture Visual Festival (Yunfest), held in Kunming, Yunnan Province. Over the last decade, one goal of the festival organizers has been to construct a documentary space that exceeds the temporal and material boundaries of the festival itself. To understand what this space might entail and engender, it is necessary to consider just what kinds of spaces Yunfest itself employs. By analysing the configuration of exhibition spaces utilized during Yunfest 2011, this article explores the politics of spatial disaggregation that shaped particular audiences and that, we argue, contributed to the emergence of a postsocialist public within these documentary spaces.
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