Country: South Korea
Year: 2004
Duration: 30'
Plasticity suffers from the Big Chill. The extreme weather condition prohibits any human existence on the ground surface. Near the 50th Periphery, an underground hostel sleeps under this deserted landscape… Kirin is the doorkeeper of the hostel. He is an orphan and nobodies know exactly where he is from. People name him Kirin simply because he earns his life by collecting emptied beer cans. He lives in his own solitude until one day he meet the beautiful nomad Lanlan.
Biography
film director
Yu Likwai
Yu Likwai (Hong Kong, China, 1966) studied in Belgium at the INSAS (Institut national supérieur des arts de spectacle), graduating in Film in 1994, and began working as a cinematographer, the start of an important collaboration with Jia Zhangke. He directed the photography of many of the Chinese filmmaker’s movies, including Pickpocket (1997), Platform (2000), Unknown Pleasures (2002), The World (2004), Still Life (2006), 24 City (2008), I Wish I Knew (2010), and A Touch of Sin, which won best screenplay at the last Cannes Film Festival. The collaboration between the two artists also led to the founding of the production company Xstream Pictures in 2003. Yu Likwai has also worked as director of photography with the Hong Kong director Ann Hui on Ordinary Heroes (1999) and above all on A Simple Life, which competed at the 2011 Venice Film Festival and for which Deannie Yip won the Volpi Cup for best actress. He recently collaborated on the first film directed by the Chinese author Quan Ling, Forgetting to Know You (2013), produced by Jia Zhangke and presented at the Forum of the last Berlinale. Alongside his work as director of photography, in 1996 Yu Likwai began his career as a director with the short documentary Yuan Ping, followed the next year by the medium-length documentary Neon Goddesses (1996). In 1999 he directed the feature-length Love Will Tear Us Apart, which competed at Cannes, and in 2003 All Tomorrow’s Parties (2003), selected for Cannes in the section Un certain regard, and winner of a special mention for the Photography at BAFICI and the New Visions Award at the Sitges Film Festival. In 2004 Yu Likwai participated in the Jeonju International Film Festival project with the short Dance with Me to the End of Love, presented that same year at the Torino Film Festival, and in 2008 he made what for the moment is his most recent film as a director, Plastic City, which competed at the Venice Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Yuan Ping (cm, doc., 1995), Neon Goddesses (mm, doc., 1996), Tin seung yan gaan (Love Will Tear Us Apart, 1999), Mingri tianya (All Tomorrow’s Parties, 2003), Dance With Me to the End of Love (cm, 2004), Dangkou (Plastic City, 2008).
Declaration
film director
“In this short film project, I want to make my tribute to the silent film. For me, the silent movies are the biggest lesson of cinema. In terms of cinema language and narrative construction, the silent movies have nearly all invented for us. They are the pioneer of cinema. With this chance of making this short film, I want to indulge myself with this spirit of naivety and sincerity, exploring the digital visual possibilities in continuity of this great tradition. Shooting the present time as a Parody, to create dialectic between the reality and imagery. Everything is familiar and contemporary, yet the treatment itself will create a sort of discrepancy and distance.”
Cast
& Credits
REGIA, SCENEGGIATURA, FOTOGRAFIA, MONTAGGIO, PRODUTTORE
Yu Lik Wai
MUSICA
Xiao He
SUONO
Zhang Yang
INTERPRETI
Na Ren, Chow Chi Sung, Ah Dun, Xiao He
PRODUZIONE, DISTRIBUZIONE
Jeonju International Film Festival
Yu Lik Wai
MUSICA
Xiao He
SUONO
Zhang Yang
INTERPRETI
Na Ren, Chow Chi Sung, Ah Dun, Xiao He
PRODUZIONE, DISTRIBUZIONE
Jeonju International Film Festival