Country: China
Year: 2004
Duration: 15'
The first short film by Yang Fudong.
Energy, mental states, dizzying filmic connections. Faces and bodies
suspended in a vertical state, in the dumbfounded silence of dynamism
gone mad. The sky and the earth seem to compress themselves into the
unstable geometry of obsessive and unclassifiable bodies. Fudong's
entire cinematographic talent is delineated in a few short minutes,
without renouncing an ironic outlook that combines mystery and
experimentation.
Biography
film director
Yang Fudong
Yang Fudong (Beijing, 1971) studied painting at the China Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou. He is a filmmaker, a photographer and a painter, and is one of the most important Chinese avanguard artists of today. His paintings, photographs and video installations have been exhibited all over the world (Paris, New York, Prague, Chicago, Tokyio). As a film directors he has made short films as Backyard - Hey Sun is Rising! (2001), Liu Lan (2003) and the work in progress Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest (2003). Mosheng Tiantang (An Estranged Paradise) is his fisrt full-lenght film. Currently he lives and works in Shanghai.
FILMOGRAFIA
Citylight (cm, 2000), Backyard - Hey, Sun is Rising! (cm, 2001), Mohseng Tiantang (An Estranged Paradise, 1997-2002), Liu Lan (cm, 2003), Seven Intellectuals in Bamboo Forest (cm, 2003).