Director: Pan Jun 52 minutes
Synopsis: People have already forgotten the political storm which arose from the documentary, "China" produced by the film master Michelangelo Antonioni in 1972. Today, when we pursue the tracks in China that the film master had visited 30 years ago, we cannot restrain the temptation to ask a series of questions.
If he was still alive Antonioni would marvel at China's rapid and mystical change. In "Mask Changing" China's appearance flows back and forward between the frame of Antonioni's documentary and the current one…history and presence contrast each other between the contemporary and the past scenes.
Furthermore, the people and the street incidents he captured in Tiananmen, Wangfujing, the town god's temple, the cotton manufactory and "the Red Flag ditch" are unchanged but have experienced more than '''change''. It is not only the modification on the facial expression, environments and materials but most importantly their evolutionary their vision and perceptions. The "Mask Changing" is a drama demonstrating decisively how China and her people have learned to confront the world.