Xiānghé

The story

A 15 part film featuring scenes from Xianghe, running from the mundane to the surreal: people parade in opera costumes, slaughter pigs in public and dine on the fields; they bury the dead and get married, tickling the bride and groom, everything done without speech. Sitting somewhere between intimate personal reels and detached ethnographic records, the work creates a simultaneous sense of immersion and distance – of the type you might associate with end-of-life flashbacks. Yang gives nostalgia a fantastic, mystical bent, as if to suggest that to revel in memory is a creative act.

Cast

T Tan Zhuo L Lv Yulai W Wang Yang Z Zhang Xinzhong H Huang Ailing L Li Bo G Guo Jiawei G Guo Wanchao W Wang Xudong W Wang Quanxi L Li Yan J Jin Rui

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S Shao Siyuan J Ji Li F Fu Shaoluan W Wang Xinhua T Tan Weiya F Fan Shuzhen