
	acknowledgements : curator's note : films : location : schedule : ama home

Call Me (Hu Wo)

(China 2000, VHS, 87 min.)

Director: Ah Nian
Cast: Li Mengnan, Ji Bo, Yan Danchen

movie scene Call Me is an intricate weave of parallel narratives following two characters uprooted from the provinces and struggling to survive in the city. One, a flower vendor, struggles in vain to deliver a bouquet to a young woman on behalf of a client, while the other, a guileless migrant laborer, contracts AIDS after selling blood and desperately tries to locate those who have received his blood. Their repeated pleas for response, relayed through a messaging center, give the film its title and become a metaphor for the character's inability to achieve direct connection.

Director's Biography

movie scene A graduate of the Beijing Broadcasting Institute in 1987, Ah Nian begun his professional career in television. His first feature film, Age of Sensitivity (1994), won the first prize at the Harbin Film Festival in China, and he has since directed A Chinese Moon (1995), Love in the City (1997), and Call Me (2000).