Harry Roseman’s video Temple of the Six Banyan Trees, Guangzhou, China, has been accepted into the Video Art & Experimental Film Festival (VAEFF). It is also an official selection of the Imagina Anifest Festival, and a semi-finalist for numerous other festivals. His work is based on approximately 3,500 photographs of his travel in China as well as about 30 hours of sound.

In 1987, Harry traveled to China, and the trip left an indelible mark on him. After many years of sorting through and working intermittently on the photographs and sound recordings, he began working in 2019 on developing a number of videos. At this point, he has completed Thirteen videos, and is working on the Fourteenth. These experimental animated films deal with experience, memory, time, stillness and movement, and relationships between two and three-dimensionality. They also deal with a group of Americans traveling in China in 1987, and his internalized vision of this trip.

A Research Committee grant helped support this project, and the video Temple of the Six Banyan Trees, Guangzhou, China, was shown at the festival in New York City this fall.