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Film Information:
Year:

2008

Using

País:

 

Director:

Zhou Hao

Color:

Color

Format:

Betacam

Duration:

108 min

Production:

  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Zhou Hao
  • MONTAJE: Zhou Hao, Tang Jiaying
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Shen Hao

Contact:

  • Guangdong 21st Century Publish Ltd. China
  • Zhou Hao
  • R1806 No. 289 Guangzhou Dadao
  • 510601 Guangzhou, China
  • T +86 135 0000 4991
  • F +86 20 8736 3287
  • E sinoreel@gmail.com

Synopsis

Long Ge is a formerly cocky gangster from Guangzhou, who has descended into heroin addiction and poverty. Zhou Hao spent three years filming him, digging very deeply into the time and lives of Long Ge, his girlfriend, and their junkie community. At times the filmmaker seems invisible, at other times he intervenes, challenges, and maybe even, to a certain extent, enables their addictions.

Zhou’s provocative, controversial documentary is about drug abuse, but also about the perilously interdependent relationship between a documentary’s subjects and its filmmaker. He exposes a completely de-glamorized, rarely seen, slice of the Chinese urban underground, and he reveals at the same time, in a bravely self-reflexive way, the ideological assumptions that “independent documentary” as a genre constructs around itself.

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