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'Xin Lu' at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival will get you moving
Ming-Yuen S. Ma's work will be shown on a touring bus.
By Shana Ting Lipton
Special to The Times

May 3, 2008

To call Los Angeles-based Chinese American experimental video artist Ming-Yuen S. Ma a man without a country might not be entirely accurate. The globe-trotting creator is, in fact, a man of several countries -- the United States, Britain and China, to be exact. It is this multicultural undercurrent, along with his personal and family memories of a bygone Hong Kong, that have inspired his media project and film series, "Xin Lu."

Consisting of four mostly short films, it will screen Saturday and Sunday as part of the 24th annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. Like some of the mobility themes it explores, the collection will, quite literally, move: It will be shown on a bus touring Los Angeles. "A screening room with wheels," Ma says.

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