28th Chicago Underground Film Festival

SHORTS 3: LETTERS FROM NOT-SO-FAR-OFF COUNTRIES

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Xinjiang is off-limits to Western journalists and directors. This may be the first time you've seen Xinjiang. This is a dual-screen experimental short film. It records that during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the director and team drove more than 3,000 kilometers and trekked through different landforms such as deserts, canyons, grasslands, and Gobi. They came to Xinjiang, China, and had dinner with the Uyghur people in the desert gorge. The director has been paying attention to the living conditions of the minority people in the border areas of China since 2006. In such a harsh period of time, the artist reached out through concrete actions, hoping to fill some gaps and show some hope. Through the special design of this film, every detail is composed of a tight structure like music notes. This work also has a diffusive but inseparable relationship with the horrific memory of the worldwide social restrictions and even lockdowns, the Black Death in Florence, and the Spanish flu. "Everything is annihilated in the fire. This annihilation makes this work even more intriguing. It points to the depths of the social history and will trigger endless reveries about the future."

  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    13 minutes
  • Language
    English
  • Country
    Hong Kong
  • Premiere
    US Premiere
  • Director
    Li Yongzheng
  • Screenwriter
    Li Yongzheng
  • Producer
    Li Yongzheng, Songqiao Zhao
  • Cinematographer
    Ma zhandong, Chen Jie
  • Composer
    Li Kun