22° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Detours China

Murdered Trotsky in Summer, Gentleman in Financial Crisis Got More Depressed

Murdered Trotsky in Summer, Gentleman in Financial Crisis Got More Depressed
by Lu Chunsheng
Country: China
Year: 2003
Duration: 22'


A friend and collaborator of Yang Fudong, Lu Chunsheng borrows from the maestro's filmed material and takes it to an extreme in a crazy race that goes beyond every Chinese tradition. The grotesque race of the characters mocks the city and its conventions. Even a certain leaning toward the cerebral is muffled by an instinctive gesture that would like to overturn the world. A true leap into the void. "I put two unrelated events together. I believe there is certain kind of unknown connections behind many things. Of course this is only my imagination. They only happen in my film." (Lu Chunsheng)

Biography

film director

Chunsheng Lu

Lu Chunsheng (Changchun, China, 1968) lives and works in Shanghai. A photographer and video artist, he has exhibited his works all over the world.

FILMOGRAFIA

The Curve Which Can Cough (cm, 2001), Brother Wright's Fault (cm, 2002), Murdered Trotsky in Summer, Gentlemen in Financial Circles Got more Depressed (cm, 2003), Before the Appearance of the First Steam Engine (cm, 2003), History of Chemistry (cm, 2004).

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