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Sunday, January 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Archive Project Movie:
Linda Mussmann’s MAO WOW (1999)
In collaboration with Claudia Bruce.
Followed by a Q&A with Linda Mussmann 

TSL presents a screening of the 1999 production of Mao Wow, an original piece by Linda Mussmann.

On May 14th, 1991, Mao Zedong’s widow, Jiang Qing was found hanged in her prison cell.

When the news reached Mussmann, she was intrigued to learn that Madame Mao, a former actress, had still been alive. Mao Wow is an abstract rumination on how this fallen leader may have spent her final decade behind bars; re-enacting the death scenes of her favorite dramatic roles, haunted by the ghosts of Kafka and Freud.

Being a Mussmann/Bruce production, elements of the artists’ own personalities inevitably seep in, with connections drawn to local politics in Columbia County, as well as the lives of actresses Kate Stein and Maarika Polikarpus.

1999. 1h15m.

Screening one time this month at TSL. Followed by a Q&A with Linda Mussmann.

Tickets: $8 TSL Members / $10 General