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📍Columbia, Missouri
💡March 3-6, 2022
A heightened weekend of creative placemaking.

True/False Film Fest | March 3-6, 2022⁠ (1/12)⁠
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#invisiblevillages

About the artist:⁠ ⁠ Xinmei Liu is an illustra

About the artist:⁠
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Xinmei Liu is an illustrator/artist/printer based in the New York metro area. She was born in Shanghai, China, and earned her MFA from the Illustration as Visual Essay program at the School of Visual Arts. Her clients include The New York Times, The New Yorker, Amazon Publishing, Scholastics, Medium, Shanghai Museum, and others. Her personal work is mostly focused on her cultural background, social issues, childhood experience, and history.⁠ (2/12)⁠
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#invisiblevillages

"'In/visible Villages' invoked the vision of a uto

"'In/visible Villages' invoked the vision of a utopian community in classical Chinese literature, which tells a story of a fisherman stumbling upon a peaceful village hidden away at the head of a stream full of cherry blossoms; after leaving, he fails to find the same path again (coincidentally, this story’s setting is not unlike the Missouri river winding through blooming dogwood trees in spring). To me, playground slides are a symbol of community—they are the presence of a living neighborhood, where children play and adults bond—and create a one-way movement meant to be experienced alone, much like our protagonist’s solitary journey in and out of utopia. At the end of the day, our longing for the ideal world will bring us back to the ground, where we are rooted, and from there we will flourish." —Artist statement from Xinmei Liu (3/12)⁠
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We take on a triple consciousness, performing acts

We take on a triple consciousness, performing acts of provocation, presence, and in/visibility. (4/12)⁠
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The unseen is made visible, veils are lifted, and

The unseen is made visible, veils are lifted, and a newfound spirit is awakened. (5/12)⁠
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What destroys a community? What rebuilds it? (6/12

What destroys a community? What rebuilds it? (6/12)⁠
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Disguises. Costumes. Masked balls. (7/12)⁠ ⁠ #

Disguises. Costumes. Masked balls. (7/12)⁠
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Ghosts?! (8/12)⁠ ⁠ #invisiblevillages

Ghosts?! (8/12)⁠
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