Up down
Release Year:
2007
Story:
Tiananmen Square is the symbol of Chinese politics for hundreds of years, especially after 1949. It is the center of China. Up & Down is about a street and a square in the center of China. On the ground is Changan Road, under the ground is the subway 1#. On both sides of Changan Road are the center of politics, authority, finance, trade, business and entertainment. Underground of Changan Road is subway 1#, the "main artery" of transportation, where is crowded, dark and depressing. Tiananmen Square is tourist attractions, a place with lot of control, a place where political ceremony held and where the national flag rising and lowering every day. It presents that there are tens of thousands of people in the square when the national flag rising and lowering. People are watching and singing the national anthem. This ceremony is end with the flag coming down. Most people want to watch the national flag rising and lowering. It is become a phenomenon. It becomes one of the important content of patriotic education and political education. But it's hard to understand the ceremony of flag lowering and so many people enjoy watching this ceremony. View and people always change on the Changan Road. The national flag is rising and lowering day by day on the square. Where there's an up, there's a down. That's how things go.
Tiananmen Square is the symbol of Chinese politics for hundreds of years, especially after 1949. It is the center of China. Up & Down is about a street and a square in the center of China. On the ground is Changan Road, under the ground is the subway 1#. On both sides of Changan Road are the center of politics, authority, finance, trade, business and entertainment. Underground of Changan Road is subway 1#, the "main artery" of transportation, where is crowded, dark and depressing. Tiananmen Square is tourist attractions, a place with lot of control, a place where political ceremony held and where the national flag rising and lowering every day. It presents that there are tens of thousands of people in the square when the national flag rising and lowering. People are watching and singing the national anthem. This ceremony is end with the flag coming down. Most people want to watch the national flag rising and lowering. It is become a phenomenon. It becomes one of the important content of patriotic education and political education. But it's hard to understand the ceremony of flag lowering and so many people enjoy watching this ceremony. View and people always change on the Changan Road. The national flag is rising and lowering day by day on the square. Where there's an up, there's a down. That's how things go.
Casts & Crews:
Wang Wo
Directors
Runtime:
12
minutes
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surensure at 2023-09-11
导演想要呈现“上下”不仅是一个肌肉动作,一种物理运动,还是一类政治机制。全程垂直和水平的分屏配合这种叙事。画外音有趣,当你离现场有一段距离,错过一个开头,升国旗和降国旗是分不清的,符号和真相也是暧昧不清的。
Tak Shire at 2023-08-29
Yijiao Dong at 2022-08-13
上与下、仪式与日常、权力景观与资本景观
galois at 2021-07-13
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Casts & Crews
Wang Wo
Director
Story:
Tiananmen Square is the symbol of Chinese politics for hundreds of years, especially after 1949. It is the center of China.
Up & Down is about a street and a square in the center of China. On the ground is Changan Road, under the ground is the subway 1#. On both sides of Changan Road are the center of politics, authority, finance, trade, business and entertainment. Underground of Changan Road is subway 1#, the "main artery" of transportation, where is crowded, dark and depressing.
Tiananmen Square is tourist attractions, a place with lot of control, a place where political ceremony held and where the national flag rising and lowering every day. It presents that there are tens of thousands of people in the square when the national flag rising and lowering. People are watching and singing the national anthem. This ceremony is end with the flag coming down.
Most people want to watch the national flag rising and lowering. It is become a phenomenon. It becomes one of the important content of patriotic education and political education. But it's hard to understand the ceremony of flag lowering and so many people enjoy watching this ceremony.
View and people always change on the Changan Road. The national flag is rising and lowering day by day on the square. Where there's an up, there's a down. That's how things go.