Country: , UK
Year: 2003
Duration: 22'
Leaving her native country for the first time,
a young Chinese writer wanders on a wild mountain in Wales. Through the
landscape and the people she meets she enters a dreamlike world where
memories of life in Beijing, and a childhood in a poor fishing village
return to her. She contemplates loneliness and is haunted by stories of
tragic death.
Biography
film director
Xiaolu Guo
Guo Xiaolu (1975) was born in a remote fishing village. She enrolled at the Film Academy of Beijing when she was 18, and graduated in screenwriting and film theory. In 2002 she moved to England to follow courses in directing documentaries at the National Film and Television School. She has published many short stories, essays and articles, and her last novel, Village of Stone, was published in France and England.
FILMOGRAFIA
FILMOGRAFIA/FILMOGRAPHY The Artists I Know From Beijing's Alleyways (doc, 1993), Life is Elsewhere (2002), Far and Near (2003), The Concrete Revolution (2004).