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Sunday, August 26 • 10:00am - 11:35am
People's Republic of Desire

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Documentary
Directed By Hao Wu
Run Time 95 Minutes
China

In contemporary China, the meteoric rise in popularity of live-streaming webcam celebrities has created a new economy of Internet idols and their devoted patrons. Performers with little more than a basic computer setup can find instant fame — and earn up to $200,000 a year in tips from lonely, addicted fans seeking validation from their favorite hosts. Provocative, strange, and bleak, this documentary details a real-life dystopia of ostentatious wealth and digital alienation.

- Corey Craft

Venues
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Steiner Auditorium at the Birmingham Museum of Art

The Birmingham Museum of Art, one of the finest regional museums in the United States, houses a diverse collection of more than 27,000 paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, and decorative arts dating from ancient to modern times. The collection presents a rich panorama of cultures... Read More →