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In the Park

Ma Zhandong

Release year: 2013

Run time: 10 minutes

Film type: Documentary

Synopsis

We recorded a carnival in public space, where official culture meets grassroots’ entertainment. This is a time of craziness and numbness. Everybody wants to escape his or her own body and life. Happiness has become an amplified, twisted feeling of relief for individuals. Some are inappropriate and full of doubt. All of them constitute a sad and fantastic image. Are we free now or are we caged more than ever before?

 

Director biography

Ma Zhandong is an independent documentary producer who has filmed and produced tens of documentary films, long and short. His works have been screened at film festivals in Germany, the Netherlands, Iceland, Denmark, France, Japan and Hong Kong. He has also made short art films and videos. He was interviewed by ARTE in 2009. He served as a final film juror for the 14th Beijing Independent Film Exhibition in China and as a shortlisting juror for the 12th FIRST Youth Film Exhibition.

His work One Day in May won the best documentary award in 2011 at the Chinese Documentary Festival in Hong Kong. Lao Zhao won the Documentary Humanitarian Award at the 12th China Independent Film Festival. Everybody is Nobody won the 33th ATP Award for Excellence in Tokyo).

Now he lives and works in Chengdu, China.