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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).
