While I like the flavour of Kraicer’s article is, the desire to see Chinese film ‘progress’ in a way that is unexpected is though bound to happen, dialectically, I would like argue. Zhang Yuedong’s Mid Afternoon Barks was precisely this, a bona fide Borgesian surrealist DV feature.

I disagree though with his view of Useless, China may be a powerhouse but it can never escape its past.