The Great Wall: Lovers at the Brink(1989)

🎬65 min
📅1989-01-01
🎭Romance, Documentary

Overview

In the twilight years of the Cultural Revolution, a Chinese filmmaker slowly becoming blind tours the country screening her last film to peasants. In it, the woman imagines two "alien" lovers walking from end-to-end along the Great Wall to join each other in the middle, one last time. This documentary is an adaptation of Ulay and Marina Abramovic's final collaborative project, the 1988 performance "The Lovers: The Great Wall Walk."

Production

Contemporary Art Foundation

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Cast

Marina Abramović
as Herself
Ulay
as Himself
Bao Xing
as Calligrapher
Sedar Chazam
as Voice
Wu Xiao Ming
as Voice