Snow Fare the Land, 2024
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China's 1990s economic reforms led to the collapse of Northeastern industries, leaving a legacy of decay and social depression, emblematic of broader national anxieties.
After spending years in London and Shanghai, two individuals - a poet and a photographer - from northeast China return to capture images of their homeland. These visuals serve as a reflection on what persists in the wake of the region's fleeting prosperity, which has been socio-politically neglected, and how the local populace responds to impoverishment. Through this documentary, with eleven measures composed by the fragments on the road, observational footages and improvised talks with locals, border with North Korea and Russia to reflect on related tyranny politics, diary represented as voice, re-visit to cities where director stayed and his father grown and left, ekphrastic imagination with drone photography and symphony, etc., two artists rhetorically explore the uncertainties of the northeast's future and the resilience of its people. The fragmental editing-visuals and elegiac tonality interlace a deeper lament in this poetic documentary not only for the northeastern people but also to all people who can not dwell on their homeland and of how can such individuals look back the local history.
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After the Poet’s Death, 2024
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With what words can awaken a poet without harming...?
In the spring of 1989, the Chinese poet Haizi committed suicide by lying on the rail, when he was 25. Haizi was one of the most influential Chinese poets after the Cultural Revolution. His death has been "poetized" repeatedly that becomes a "trauma encore" - the death attaching that age haunts present. This documentary went through a road trip from Haizi’s hometown to his most admired place: Tibet.
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China's 1990s economic reforms led to the collapse of Northeastern industries, leaving a legacy of decay and social depression, emblematic of broader national anxieties.After spending years in London and Shanghai, two individuals - a poet and a photographer - from northeast China return to capture images of their homeland. These visuals serve as a reflection on what persists in the wake of the region's fleeting prosperity, which has been socio-politically neglected, and how the local populace responds to impoverishment. Through this documentary, with eleven measures composed by the fragments on the road, observational footages and improvised talks with locals, border with North Korea and Russia to reflect on related tyranny politics, diary represented as voice, re-visit to cities where director stayed and his father grown and left, ekphrastic imagination with drone photography and symphony, etc., two artists rhetorically explore the uncertainties of the northeast's future and the resilience of its people. The fragmental editing-visuals and elegiac tonality interlace a deeper lament in this poetic documentary not only for the northeastern people but also to all people who can not dwell on their homeland and of how can such individuals look back the local history.
After the Poet’s Death, 2024
With what words can awaken a poet without harming...?
In the spring of 1989, the Chinese poet Haizi committed suicide by lying on the rail, when he was 25. Haizi was one of the most influential Chinese poets after the Cultural Revolution. His death has been "poetized" repeatedly that becomes a "trauma encore" - the death attaching that age haunts present. This documentary went through a road trip from Haizi’s hometown to his most admired place: Tibet.
Birds in Cage, 2023
Birds could fly, China caged at all. After the Covid-19 pandemic,
China reenters a dilemma of self-consuming, selling at home and
being like the rest part of the world as well as enclosed again,
similar as the circling labourers in the film.
