Synopse
Yumen lies in Gansu province, in the dry North-West of China. Once a flourishing city that profited from the oil boom in the region, today Yumen is a ghost town in which hungry souls roam the ruined landscape looking for human contact and a shared past. Shot entirely on the long-forgotten medium of 16mm, the film combines performance art with socialist realism, ruin voyeurism and an homage to a forgotten industrial age. This film is part of the special series "Chinese Independent Cinema".
Info
Original Title: Yu Men
International Title: Yumen
Category: experimental
Section: Unabhäniges Chinesisches Kino
Version & Subtitles: Chinese
Director: Xu Routao, John Paul Sniadecki, Xu Ruotao, Huang Xiang
Screenplay: Xu Ruotao, John Paul Sniadecki, Huang Xiang
Production country: China
Year of Production: 2013
Length: 65 min
Producer: HuangXiang XuRuotao John Paul Sniadecki, Xu Shan, Xu Ruotao, John Paul Sniadecki
Production company: The Sensory Ethnography Lab, The Film Study Center at Harvard University
Cinematography: John Paul Sniadecki, Huang Xiang
Editor: John Paul Sniadecki, Xu Ruotao, Huang Xiang
