A documentary about houses in rural Gansu decorated with portraits of Mao Zedong. More importantly: a documentary about the people who dwell within them.
One night, two men meet in an abandoned building, and share their memories about early lives in their hometowns. They leave this building and continue to roam in the night, then they find themselves return back to the abandoned building: it looks more unfamiliar now, then it collapse down, then...
This is a film both about the spectacle and the space, about how the spectacle has caused the mutation of the (physical and phycological) space in which we reside. This film is determined to be the ‘film on space’ of our times, an epic theater, the general observation of the geological...
Huangyangchuan township, Gulang County, Gansu province. In a village, two members of a family died in accidents in a short period. People took it seriously, they decided to rebuild the old temple in the village, hoping it could bless them with peace. In the ceremony after the rebuilding was...
The filmmaker spent years in a Chinese village to record daily life’s every detail. He drank many a glass with the villagers and observed them for so long that he started to recognize their repeating patterns of behavior. That is why there is no end to this tale.
"Huangyangchuan, Gansu province, China. It's an arid mountain area with poor roads. Ma Bingcheng is well-respected local doctor, so many patients (most of them farmers) come to see him every day. In his small clinic, people chat with each other about their lives, local conditions, or the people...
This is a complete video that was downloaded from the Internet. I didn't make any changes, just added a title at the beginning and a line of text at the end. The time frame on the video appears to indicate an event in the future, but this is reality, not science fiction.
A very special event that took place immediately following the 2009 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in Furuyashiki Village. They held a ‘dojo,’ a school where the veteran independent filmmakers from Japan taught the younger generation of independent filmmakers from China and...
Taking „911” incident as a clue, Hwarenheit 911 develops associations with real-life scenes, whether close or far, to explore the “terrorism” in everyday life.
Since 2020, the beginning of Coronavirus, "Shouting in the building" this phenomenon caught my attention countless times. It does not seem to me that people are Shouting, but that the buildings, the rooms themselves, are Shouting, and it embodies the throbbing of the earth itself in the new age we...
I used footage from the internet and a part of historical text, their interconnection and what produced are not "scary", but some coincidences that history provided.