Among a select group of films on rural life in China, little-known but brilliant is Chinese shadows: the amazing world of shadow puppetry in rural northwest China (58 minutes, Pan Records, 2007). Fruit of the collaboration between Frank Kouwenhoven and the late lamented Antoinet Schimmelpenninck of the CHIME foundation in Leiden, it evokes the changing lives of … Continue reading Shadow puppets and Satie