Synopsis

How do artists live in China today? Painters and poets have gone back to the dream-walking wanderings and the intense discussions of art, love and philosophy that characterized the artists of the classical age. In the stifling summer city, the artist Li Wake helps the painter Wang Yongping make a film. The frontiers between what is true and false, between creation and existence, are abolished. Li finds a fellow wanderer, the young “Beibei Demon Face”, who is a night watchman and poet. They meet up and work in the studio of Ding Defu, an expressionist painter. Inspired by the biography of Van Gogh, they all love walking around naked and turning their and bodies into poetic objects, motivated by a desire both to provoke and to abandon their social roles. “The disorder of our world resembles that of our hearts.”

Following on from Floating Dust, this is the second part of a trilogy about survival in an absurd world.