An Echo Film
Cong Feng
Release year: 2020
Run time: 15 mins
Film type: Experimental Film
Synopsis
The title is an original appropriation of a ready-made film. The title of this past film is a fitting place for an observation of an experience of today. Echoes are the replay of past sounds in the soundstage of today. What we have said may have been said in time past. What we have experienced may have been experienced by someone else long ago. Echoes exist because the spatial structures that create them continue to exist, and the sound source is still vibrating somewhere. Language and experience both have an echo effect.
Director's statement
Poet and filmmaker Cong Feng was born in Chengde in 1972. He has previously worked at the National Satellite Meteorology Centre of China and as cultural editor for The International Herald Leader. He has also published two volumes of poetry and taught English to secondary school students. Since 2008, four of his documentaries have screened at the Beijing Independent Film Festival, including the film shot at the school where he taught, The Unfinished History of Life (2010).