A DAY TO REMEMBER (China/2005)

"Do you know what day is today?" This deceptively simple question is posed by videomaker Liu Wei to primarily Peking University students in A Day to Remember (Wangque de yitian), which was shot on June 4th, 2005. While most in the west don't know that the sixteenth anniversary of a major event in recent Chinese history took place on that date, they are most likely familiar with the incident itself: "Tiananmen Square," in which a large number of people -- mostly young students who were critical of CCP's policies and dared to protest -- were killed by the military. Liu's query goes unanswered: a few choose not to reply; others casually walk away from the camera. This 13-minute video goes a long way to show that the more things have changed, the more they have remained the same.