PEN America is pleased to co-present “Turn It On: China on Film, 2000–2017,” a series of documentary films from China co-curated by artist Ai Weiwei and filmmaker Wang Fen, organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Presented concurrently with the exhibition Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World, the series will feature 20 rarely seen documentaries by more than a dozen filmmakers whose work investigates the political, social, economic, and cultural conditions of contemporary China.
The works in this series offer urgent and often raw insight into issues of personal struggle and social justice existing in China today. Selected from hundreds of documentaries made in China over the past two decades, many of the films in “Turn It On” are made by writers and artists facing severe challenges in producing and distributing their work. Many of the films will be screened in the United States for the first time.
