Country: China
Year: 2003
Duration: 76'
A poetic and detailed meditation: peace, boredom, love and melancholy, a moment
before the advent of the information age and the global capital. The young
intellectual Zhuzi lives with his fiancée Linshan in the city of Hangzhou -
which means, paradise. He is going through a moment of malaise and anxiety which
will end when the rainy season is over. His self-realization intertwines with
the natural equilibrium of the world: space, time, change, emotions and history
unite with the essence of nature.
"The relationship between my work and the films of the 20's is pretty vague.
Today, artists can use any medium to express their point of view and can choose
upon the basis of their need to say something specific. I believe that the
delicacy of my film has its origins in my past and in my experiences. I'm not
able to be more explicit about my personal relation with Chinese cinema of that
time. I'm afraid to." (Yang Fudong)
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).
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