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Cao Fei: Blueprints review – would you trade love for progress?
Love is evidence that we are recognised as individuals, as significant. Love is what we are asked to set aside in the name of progress under a revolutionary regime. Love, too, is imperilled by automation, given how it minimises human contact. Two great loves sit at the heart of Cao Fei's feature-length film Nova from last year: a romance between two computer scientists – one Russian, one Chinese – and the relationship between the latter and his son. Both loves fall foul of Sino-Soviet progress.