The Longwang Chronicles: a Year of Lifes in a Chinese Village
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Release Year:
2009
Story:
Unusually popular religions and extreme secular beliefs, unconstrained power and no authoritarian society, people work hard on the land and live thrifty but do not believe in the meaning of life at all. This is Longwang Village, an empty old farming society, the most essential reality of an ordinary western village. The film does not have a perpetual plot. The images are presented with the changing of the four seasons. There is no great joy or great sadness. Everything is recorded, and no results are produced. Strictly speaking, this is actually just a rural video file, a running account of ordinary western villages without all rhetoric.
Unusually popular religions and extreme secular beliefs, unconstrained power and no authoritarian society, people work hard on the land and live thrifty but do not believe in the meaning of life at all. This is Longwang Village, an empty old farming society, the most essential reality of an ordinary western village. The film does not have a perpetual plot. The images are presented with the changing of the four seasons. There is no great joy or great sadness. Everything is recorded, and no results are produced. Strictly speaking, this is actually just a rural video file, a running account of ordinary western villages without all rhetoric.
Casts & Crews:
Li Yifan
Directors
Runtime:
89
minutes
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Reference:
The 2nd Beijing Independent Film Forum in 2007
The 26th Vancouver International Film Festival in 2008
2009 Yunzhinan Documentary Video Exhibition
The 2nd Beijing Independent Film Forum in 2007
The 26th Vancouver International Film Festival in 2008
2009 Yunzhinan Documentary Video Exhibition
Director‘s Statement:
I tried to select a sample that is very close to the largest average value of rural western China. I hope to pass the original record of this sample with the most objective attitude to reflect the greatest commonality of rural society in western China. During the filming, the film gave up the record of extreme events, local characteristics and folk customs, gave up the description of the personalities of the characters in the film, and gave up my personal feelings about the characters in the film. There is only one purpose, to prevent individual things from being affected by this average. influences. The filming took more than two years. It was long and lonely. When my personal feelings and the specific life of the villagers became closer and closer, I kept reminding myself to give up my personal feelings and observe the pain in the countryside. This has always been the most painful struggle in my heart.
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Li Yifan
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