Rock and Cliff ：The Geological Surface of Horn Town
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Release Year:
2019
Story:
This video essay “Rock and Cliff” investigates the creation of Horn Town, a new model village and center of large-scale tourism development, as well as local residents’ life displaced from the Three Gorges Dam. Horn Town is located in Wulong, a rural district near the Three Gorges Dam administered by the Chongqing municipality (a city of 30 million people). The film is narrated in the style of pseudo-educational documentary and local Chongqing dialect. Using geological and topographical perspectives, it studies different types of 'rocks' found in the area, from mythological stones to a cliff, from ruins of the original settlement to a stone sculpture of a dubious “Land Art Biennial”. It addresses issues of land acquisition, top-down governance approach and spatial politics.
This video essay “Rock and Cliff” investigates the creation of Horn Town, a new model village and center of large-scale tourism development, as well as local residents’ life displaced from the Three Gorges Dam. Horn Town is located in Wulong, a rural district near the Three Gorges Dam administered by the Chongqing municipality (a city of 30 million people). The film is narrated in the style of pseudo-educational documentary and local Chongqing dialect. Using geological and topographical perspectives, it studies different types of 'rocks' found in the area, from mythological stones to a cliff, from ruins of the original settlement to a stone sculpture of a dubious “Land Art Biennial”. It addresses issues of land acquisition, top-down governance approach and spatial politics.
Casts & Crews:
Yu Guo
Directors
Runtime:
48
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Director‘s Statement:
When land development becomes magical realism, I hope to re-analyze the complicated reality through film. Using various narrative methods to show changing landscapes, I choose a seemingly top-down perspective. But in fact, it is the other way around.
Casts & Crews
Yu Guo
Director
