Prisoners in Freedom City
Streaming video - 2007
Civil rights activist Hu Jia was held under house arrest from 2004 to 2008 in the upscale eastern suburbs of Beijing. One day Hu picked up a video camera and began to document things outside the window: his watchers, shepherds tending their flocks, spiders in the rain, and his fellow activist and wife, Zeng Jinyan, going to and from work under the unnervingly close watch of plainclothes police. "*PRISONERS IN FREEDOM CITY documents Hu Jia and Zeng Jinyan’s repression in the name of social stability and their own acts of resistance. Hu and Zeng film their real lives, presenting the conflict between their ideals and reality with great impact. They are at once the documentarians and the subjects of a faithful record of their everyday li...ves.*" – ***Ai Weiwei***
- Subjects
- Genres
- Documentary films
- Published
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
Zeng Jinyan
2007.
2019. - Language
- English
- Other Authors
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- Online Access
- A Kanopy streaming video
Cover Image - Item Description
- Title from title frames.
Film
In Process Record. - Physical Description
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
- Format
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Access
- AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).