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Yumen

OT: Yu Men

Xu Ruotao, John Paul Sniadecki, Huang Xiang // People's Republic of China, 2013
Experimental // FF2015

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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”.

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Yu Men

Experimental

Chinese

Asia Express//FF2015


People's Republic of China

2013

65 min

OV with German and English subtitles

Xu Ruotao, John Paul Sniadecki, Huang Xiang

Xu Ruotao, John Paul Sniadecki, Huang Xiang

Xu Shan, Xu Ruotao, John Paul Sniadecki

John Paul Sniadecki, Huang Xiang

John Paul Sniadecki, Xu Ruotao, Huang Xiang

The Sensory Ethnography Lab; The Film Study Center at Harvard University

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