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Days in the Mountains

Deng and his family live in a remote village deep in the Daba mountains of China’s Sichuan province. From 1968 to 1999, Luo visited this village to meet Deng and his friends, and was welcomed by the whole village. We see scenes of roadwork undertaken by the whole village, a traditional marriage ceremony and the innocent, smiling faces of the local children. This film evokes Luo’s paintings while often gently describing the villagers’ daily lives as they unfold against the backdrop of the four seasons.

Days in the Mountains

NR 2000
The Emperor's Secret Garden

Beijing's Forbidden City is known throughout the world as an icon of Chinese history, evolving over the centuries as a symbol of the glory and grandeur of its ruling elite. Yet in one corner stands a more intimate group of buildings and gardens—one that has lain unused and virtually untouched for more than two hundred years. This film takes us on a fascinating journey into a world where only the most perfect and beautiful work could be offered to an Emperor—a standard that the modern world is hard-pressed to equal. The revelation is that supreme skills and traditional materials may be rare, but they do still exist, if the will exists to seek them out. The search ends in triumph—and watching this remarkable and intricate treasure come back to life is an unforgettable experience.

The Emperor's Secret Garden

7.0 2008
Leave Me Alone

The record is the life of several Miss Accompany. The leaves, Yang Hong, Yang Hong’s boyfriend Liang Lei, and a girl named nicknamed San Warm are the four main characters in the film. They lived together in a rented unit on the outskirts of the city, and the story started here; after 70 minutes, the characters left the city or did not know what to do - the images showed them from autumn to winter, in a foreign city The flow of. But the seasonal characteristics of such a time passage are completely unsuccessful in the film because it is a life in the dark. The characters are just awake at night, they are in nightclubs, bars, hair salons, dance halls - almost all scenes of the film have nothing to do with day, the difference between night and night, which creates a split between the two kinds of life. After the city's daily life scene, the part that is hidden. It is also secret.. https://movie.douban.com/subject/3732547/

Leave Me Alone

NR 2001
Lingering Dregs of Hundreds Years • On Site

This 65-minute documentary is a record of the event “Reshaping Society” — 2001 Chinese Artists’ Conceptual Reflection Activity, organized in August 2001 in Chacun, Jing County, Anhui, by the contemporary art curators Mao Xiaolang and Zuo Jing. The film was originally shot as visual documentation of the event. However, the large amount of footage accumulated during filming ultimately led to the completion of the film in its final edited form. The entire film was shot on a Sony PD-100 DV camera, and the post-production editing was completed using a tape-to-tape editing system.

Lingering Dregs of Hundreds Years • On Site

NR 2001
Dancing in the City

An idealist bent on speaking for China's peasants, a rural youth striving to assimilate into urban life, a young girl drifting between city and country, a rebel whose passions blended money and literature—they possessed rural blood, yet their souls danced in chains in the city. They returned home time and again, fleeing from it; they struggled to break free from their shackles, only to find their true selves again and again. Where was home, where was spiritual refuge? Amidst the urban jungle, they trudged forward, sighing silently.

Dancing in the City

NR 2006
Family of Da Mashi

The family of Da Mashi (Nu ethnic group) has lived on the cliff of Nujiang for 100 years. To plant potatoes on the slope, the local people have to place a fistful of weed with the potato; otherwise it will roll down from the slope into the river. Nujiang had been beyond social revolution, with no contact with the outside world but the annual relief by the government until the 1990s. In addition, having been isolated for a long time, the Nu people believe that Gods exist in the mountains, rivers and brushwood. In 2000, with the promotion of the national poverty support policy and ecological protection policy in the Three Parallel River Area, Da Mashi's family was faced with a new option for survival. That's intriguing.

Family of Da Mashi

NR 2007
Migration: The Last Village in a Cave

After A Village in a Cave (1996), documentarian and anthropologist Hao Yuejun spent another two years doing fieldwork in the village cage. This film is regarded as a sequel, telling a different story of the same people in the same cave village. Five years after electricity has become available in this village, news from the provincial capital once again disrupts things. A Relocation Working Group, sent by the local government, informs the villagers that they must move out of the increasingly harsh cave environment where they have been living for 200 years. Then, in the biggest remaining cave village in the world, more disturbances take place and conflicts emerge. This film not only records the process or relocation, but it depicts the culture, the lifestyle, the politics, and the social development of a Chinese rural area, while also recording the evolution of Chinese rural society.

Migration: The Last Village in a Cave

NR 2008
Mouthpiece

In democratic countries, the media is the mouthpiece of the public. However, in a Shenzhen TV station where protecting the interests of the Party trumps all, reporters are merely mouthpieces of the government. 'First Spot' is a TV programe that investigates social disparities in the community, but most of their coverage is 'buried' away. The film follows the daily operations of the TV station and hits the streets with the reporters who attempt to unveil the city and its people in all its different forms and faces.

Mouthpiece

NR 2009
Wild Days

Xiaolong and Tala were ruffians who feel pound walking on the street. Tala stole a DV, Xiaolong fell in love with the girl in the DV tape. By chance, he met her, Yu Qian, a girl who was studying drawing. She studied in the same studio as Wang Hui. When developing friendship with Xiaolong, she indeed loved her teacher. The thirst and shyness for love has cast shadow on the young girl's life. And Wang Hui had also lost in the swirl of love and jealousy. Tala hurt someone and had to run away police. Xiaolong helped Tala's escape, and asked gang members to resolve the problem. Tala had once again returned the town.

Wild Days

NR 2009