People's Park
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Country/Region:
China Mainland
Release Year: 2012
Release Year: 2012
Story:
People’s Park is a 75-minute single-shot documentary that immerses viewers in an unbroken journey through a famous urban park in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. The film explores the dozens of moods, rhythms and pockets of performance coexisting in tight proximity within the park’s prismatic social space, capturing waltzing couples, mighty sycamores, karaoke singers, and buzzing cicadas. A sensory meditation on cinematic time and space, People’s Park offers a gaze at public interaction, leisure and self-expression in China.
People’s Park is a 75-minute single-shot documentary that immerses viewers in an unbroken journey through a famous urban park in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. The film explores the dozens of moods, rhythms and pockets of performance coexisting in tight proximity within the park’s prismatic social space, capturing waltzing couples, mighty sycamores, karaoke singers, and buzzing cicadas. A sensory meditation on cinematic time and space, People’s Park offers a gaze at public interaction, leisure and self-expression in China.
Casts & Crews:
J.P. Sniadecki
Directors
Libbie Dina Cohn
Directors
Runtime:
78
minutes
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Subtitles:
None
Festivals & Awards:
2012 Locarno Film Festival , Switzerland 2012 Beijing Independent Film Festival , China
2012 Locarno Film Festival , Switzerland 2012 Beijing Independent Film Festival , China
Tags:
One shot, Anthropology, Foreigner filmmakers
Casts & Crews
J.P. Sniadecki
Director
Libbie Dina Cohn
Director
