Country: China
Year: 2004
Duration: 15'
liu lan That
which in Backyard - Hey, Sun Is Rising! was an apparently rough-hewn
cinematographic state, here achieves a powerful, smooth-running density
and fullness. The aquatic states of an intense, amorous drifting are
crossed like a barely hinted-at Kenji Mizoguchi. The images flow and at
the same time seem to multiply themselves in brief, aphoristic touches.
Black and white become a liquid patina that coincides with the shining,
apprehensive eyes of the woman. Yang Fudong ceaselessly continues to
experiment with images and with his own, developing outlook.
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).