Compass Youth Hostel
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Country/Region:
Mainland China
Release Year: 2023
Release Year: 2023
Story:
Beijing's South Third Ring Road is densely populated with hostels of all sizes, with seven bunk beds in 70 square metres of space, costing 30-50 RMB per person per day. Countless young people come and go like birds, and the hostels are the fragile branches on which they live in Beijing. Who will comfort them through the night?
Beijing's South Third Ring Road is densely populated with hostels of all sizes, with seven bunk beds in 70 square metres of space, costing 30-50 RMB per person per day. Countless young people come and go like birds, and the hostels are the fragile branches on which they live in Beijing. Who will comfort them through the night?
Casts & Crews:
Jianhui Yun
Directors
Runtime:
129
minutes
Language:
Mandarin
Subtitles:
Chinese, English
Tags:
#Left Wing, #Chinese-Society, #Employment
Director‘s Statement:
In the middle of June 2021, I arrived in the city like all the northern migrants with dreams of being a human being. I stayed in a dirty, pungent-smelling youth hostel on Youth Road. I looked at the skinny young man on the opposite bed, who had been lying there for almost a month. He had been lying there for almost a month, his hair and face dishevelled, and he could only live on his fantasies. Two days later I couldn't stand the environment there and left to go to this hostel where I was filming. For me, the hostel was a temporary place to stay, stuffed with the "migrant workers" of society. I didn't feel connected to these young people because I would be leaving soon. I can get a job and rent an apartment on the basis of my value-added competitive advantage. Soon I got a job as a documentary writer and director, doing films with grand narrative backdrops, being milked for surplus value by my bosses while gloating over my false sense of engagement with the world. I lived like this until the day I was owed wages and couldn't afford the rent. Suddenly I thought of those people in the hostel, those young people like me, and on 1 December, after quitting my job, I went back to the Compass Hostel with the intention of documenting them.
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Casts & Crews
Jianhui Yun
Director
