The Day After
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Country/Region:
Mainland China
Release Year: 2022
Release Year: 2022
Publish Date: 31 March 2023 00:00:00 UTC
Story:
In 2020, after lockdown lifted, I went back to Wuhan, and began to film a documentary about impact of the epidemic, but recorded some footage about my father unintentionally. In 2022, I set about editing these footage, some buried details in the memory suddenly began to appear.
In 2020, after lockdown lifted, I went back to Wuhan, and began to film a documentary about impact of the epidemic, but recorded some footage about my father unintentionally. In 2022, I set about editing these footage, some buried details in the memory suddenly began to appear.
Casts & Crews:
FENG Nanxiang
Directors
Runtime:
33
minutes
Language:
Mandarin
Subtitles:
Chinese, English
Tags:
#Pandemic, #Wuhan, #Family
Director‘s Statement:
This short film was shot intermittently in Wuhan from the end of 2020 to the end of 2021, and the editing was completed in June 2022. I try to use it to present a family memory that happened in Wuhan after the lockdown. At the beginning of 2020, due to the outbreak of the covid epidemic, Wuhan suffered a 76-day blockade. At that time, I was at home in Wuhan, experiencing this unforgettable time with my parents, and witnessed the despair and panic of many people. After the lockdown of the city, I planned to shoot a documentary about the memories of the lockdown, so I interviewed many people, but after the exchange, I began to realize that everyone has different memories of the closure of the city, especially by the end of 2020, most people are no longer willing to recall and talk about the lockdown period, and the time at the beginning of 2020 seems very distant and strange. Today, strict anti-epidemic policies and personnel management have become the norm, and the experience of closing the city in Wuhan has been imitated by other places, and people are still isolated from each other and suspicious of each other. I started to think about some questions: what exactly is memory? What is history? Modern psychoanalytic theory believes that our memory is not only remembered or forgotten, but when it becomes a collective memory, it can also be continuously revised and screened afterwards. But is there a way to counter this revision and filtering? I think the camera in our hands is the answer. When collective memory is constantly devouring the boundaries of reality, individual memory is particularly precious. I finally decided to shoot a "pseudo-documentary" that combines documentary and fiction. This film has both real and fictional elements. In this film, the boundary between documentary and fiction will be infinitely blurred. Instead of looking for unfamiliar subjects, I chose to focus my lens on my own family. The film also only presents some daily life, and the drama is weak. The vast majority of ordinary people in China spend their daily lives in this way, but we have just experienced a special period. In this short film, the "past" can be reenacted and reconstructed, and the "future" can also be fictionalized. The camera appears in the film, and it directly intervenes in the story as one of the subjects, connecting "I" and the subject , has also become a space-time channel connecting the "past" and "future". Reality, memory, history and dreams are superimposed in one dimension to form a space-time crystal. I named the film "What Happened Afterwards", which is the same name as Natsume Soseki's novel. One is because the story tells the story after the closure of the city, and the other is to say how much the epidemic has affected our world. It's still hard to say, those are all later things, everything is put into time, and everything is handed over to the future.
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FENG Nanxiang
Director
