Country: China
Year: 2015
Duration: 117'
East Lake lies by the city of Wuhan, China. In recent years, it has been at the center of a bitter dispute over a requalification project along its banks that is turning the area into an amusement park surrounded by luxury condos. Many oppose the land speculation and try to stop the construction work. Amidst the growing controversy, a police officer is tracking down a man with mental health issues who disappeared near the lake.
Biography
film director
Luo Li
Luo Li (China) studied in Canada, where he received his MFA. He made his first experimental short films Fly in 2004, and Ornithology in 2005. They were both screened at several international festivals and art galleries. He directed his first middle-length feature I Went to the Zoo the Other Day in 2009, followed by his first documentary Rivers and My Father (2010), in which he combined fiction through the eyes of a documentary. He directed the feature film The Emperor Visits the Hell (2012), a rendition of an ancient Chinese legend, which participated at the Rotterdam Film Festival and subsequently won several international awards. The Toronto Cinematheque dedicated their summer 2015 retrospective to him, screening his complete works in a program entitled You Can’t Go Home Again - The Films of Luo Li.
FILMOGRAFIA
Fly (cm, 2004), Ornithology (cm, 2005), Sleepy Species (cm, 2006), I Went to the Zoo the Other Day (mm, 2009), Rivers and My Father (doc., 2010), Tang huang you difu (Emperor Visits the Hell, 2012), Lin Wen Man You Dong Hu (Li Wen at East Lake, doc., 2015).
Declaration
film director
“‘East Lake is becoming smaller and smaller, but in my memory it is becoming larger and larger.’ A friend wrote these words upon hearing the news that the OCT project, a large leisure development, was being built by the lake. He grew up by the lake, and later after he moved to another city he often thought about the lake as a reference point of his childhood and young adulthood. With a strong affinity for the words he wrote, in this film I try to depict various people’s connections with East Lake.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura, montaggio/director, screenplay, film editing
Luo Li
fotografia/cinematography
Ren Jie, Luo Li
musica/music
Yan Zi
suono/sound
Zi Jie
interpreti/cast
Li Wen, Zuo Yan, Xiao Tie, Wu Wei, Mai Dian, Li Juchuan, Yan Zi
Luo Li
fotografia/cinematography
Ren Jie, Luo Li
musica/music
Yan Zi
suono/sound
Zi Jie
interpreti/cast
Li Wen, Zuo Yan, Xiao Tie, Wu Wei, Mai Dian, Li Juchuan, Yan Zi
