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October 1 - 4: ZENITH and BEIJING TAXI at the IFC Center, New York, NY

Argot Pictures presents:

Zenith
World Premiere
Directed by Anonymous
USA | 2010

Zenith is a retro-futuristic steam-punk thriller, about two men in two time periods, whose search for the same grand conspiracy leads them to question their own humanity.
Starting from a fictional recreation of Stanley Milgram’s Obedience to Authority experiment, Zenith shows the multifaceted dimensions of the human experience. The film follows two parallel stories – of father and son – now, and 40 years into the future. Searching for the same conspiracy, both father and son find no answers; instead, their journeys unravel their lives and force them to look deep and hard at themselves and their surroundings. In the end, they are both confronted with the same Faustian bargain – but each one chooses a very different path.

IFC CENTER
323 Sixth Avenue | New York, NY 10014
Friday, October 1st@ 12am
Saturday, October 2nd @ 12 am
Cast & crew in person both nights !

Beijing Taxi
New York Premiere
Directed by Miao Wang
China/ USA | 2009

Beijing Taxi is a feature-length documentary that vividly portrays the ancient capital of China undergoing a profound transformation. The intimate lives of three taxi drivers are seen through a humanistic lens as they navigate a quickly morphing city, confronting modern issues and changing values. The three protagonists radiate a warm sense of humanity despite the struggles that each faces in adapting to new realities of life in the modern city. With stunning imagery of Beijing and a contemporary score rich in atmosphere, Beijing Taxi communicates a visceral sense of the common citizens’ persistent attempts to grasp the elusive. The 2008 Summer Olympic Games serve as the backdrop for Beijing Taxi’s story, a coming out party for a rising nation and a metaphor for Chinese society and its struggles to reconcile enormous contradictions while adjusting to a new capitalist system that can seem foreign to some in the Communist-ruled and educated society. Candid and perceptive in its filming approach and highly cinematic and moody in style, Beijing Taxi takes us on a lyrical journey through fragments of a society riding the bumpy roads to modernization. Though its destination unknown, the drivers continue to forge ahead.

IFC CENTER
323 Sixth Avenue | New York, NY 10014
Monday, October 4 @ 7:45pm
Screening followed by a Q&A with director
Miao Wang & a live performance by film composers Stephen Ulrich and Itamar Ziegler

Starts	October 1 2010
Ends / Deadline	December 4 2010
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