The Silent Voyage
Gao Zipeng
Release year: 2003
Run time: 75 mins
Film type: Documentary
Synopsis
A Jian, Zhang Chi and Gou Zi took the train from Beijing to Tongliao. They made a promise that no one would speak during the trip, and whoever broke the rules would be punished. But it's still necessary to take some phone calls and ask for directions after you get off the train... For educated decadents, life is as if always in a state of intoxication, without goal or objective.
Director biography
A practitioner of the folk image, director Gao Zipeng used to work at Gansu TV station and for CCTV. He began to devote himself to independent production in 2008 and his films include The Silent Voyage (2004) and Lost in the Mountains (2011).