Story
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”.
Director
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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