EUGENE–Wendy Larson, a University of Oregon professor of East Asian languages and literatures, will lead a discussion on avant-garde film after the screening of a contemporary underground film from China for the UO Museum of Art’s MusEvenings! program on Wednesday, Aug. 4.

The free film showing, in Mandarin with English subtitles, will begin at 6 p.m. in Room 180 of Prince Lucien Campbell Hall, 1415 Kincaid St. on the UO campus.

"Postman," (1995) directed by underground filmmaker He Jianjun of Hong Kong, China, is a 101-minute film about a mailman who begins to get involved in people’s private lives. Larson will follow the screening with a discussion of the film’s relationship to the art museum’s current exhibition, "Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century," which will be on display at the museum through Sept. 12.

The "Transience" exhibition, curated by Wu Hung, an eminent historian and scholar of Chinese art, is organized by the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago. It is made possible by the Smart Family Foundation, Inc.; the Lannan Foundation; the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; and the Nathan Cummings Foundation, with the support and encouragement of Beatrice Cummings Mayer, Mary and Roy Cullen and the John Nuveen Co.

Accessible to people with disabilities, the UO Museum of Art is open from noon to 8 p.m. Wednesday and from noon to 5 p.m. Thursday through Sunday. Special admission for the "Transience" exhibition is $5, which includes other museum galleries. Suggested general admission for the museum alone is $3, except on Wednesdays when the MusEvenings! program offers free extended viewing hours from 5—8 p.m. Museum members, students, UO employees and children are admitted free to the "Transience" and other museum galleries at all times.

For information, browse http://uoma.uoregon.edu or call (541) 346-3027.

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