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A Yangtze Landscape

Xu Xin

Release year: 2017

Run time: 156 mins

Film type: Documentary

Synopsis

A Yangtze Landscape utilizes a non-narrative style to film thousands of kilometres along the river from the port of Shanghai to Qinghai/Tibet. Experimental music and location sound were added in post-production to create a magical realist film in which the environment contrasts with the decorative figures of people, as in traditional Chinese landscape scrolls.

 

Director biography

Xu Xin was born in Taizhou, Jiangsu Province, in 1966. He is an independent documentary filmmaker based in Beijing and Nanjing. In his early years, he experimented with oil paintings and photography. His documentaries focus on marginalized communities in China.