Fiona Tan

Film Screenings: May You Live in Interesting Times | UK

Saturday 7 March 2026, 3.15pm | esea contemporary, Manchester

Saturday 28 March, 2pm | BLOC Cinema, London

 

Fiona Tan's film May You Live in Interesting Times, 1997, is the artist's most autobiographical work to date. Tracing the history of the Tan family in documentary style, the work critically analyses the construction of (her own) idenity while investigating the identity of the Chinese diaspora.

 

The two screening programmes are part of Sine Screen's Whose Homeland programme tracing experiences of migration alongside stories of internal dislocation and marginalised lives, attending to the fractures and shifting identities that emerge in moments of political and social change.

 

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Image: Fiona Tan, May You Live in Interesting Times, 1997 (still). Colour film, stereo, 60 minutes.
28 Mar 2026