Ximaojia Universe

Film Information:
Year:

2009

Ximaojia Universe

País:

 

Director:

Mao Chenyu

Color:

Color

Format:

Digibeta

Duration:

76 min

Production:

  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Mao Chenyu
  • MONTAJE: Mao Chenyu
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Xiang Hua,
  • Zhang Yaxuan

Contact:

  • Second Text Laboratory
  • Mao Chenyu
  • Room 601, No.19, Lane 86,
  • Gumei West Road, Minhang District
  • 201100 Shanghai, China
  • T +86 138 1676 1064
  • E secondtext@gmail.com
  • W www.paddyfilm.org

Synopsis

“Making my movie can be regarded as an ordinary archaeological process which aims to unveil ordinary life. I feel it is my obligation to preserve the history of and the mystery surrounding the Ximaojia ethnic group. This special ethnic group should be kept alive. My actions can be seen as future-oriented archaeological work. The film records the rhythm of life in Ximaojia Village. Ximaojia, as well as ourselves, will necessarily be the prototype of mystery that belongs to the future.”

Mao Chenyu

Mao Chenyu combines documentary, ethnography, experimental cinema, ink drawing, sculpture, and installation art in this absolutely unique, intriguingly obscure, and disarmingly beautiful portrait of the spiritual history and rhythms of life underlying his home village, Ximaojia.

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