Gu Xiaogang

Gu Xiaogang

Birth : 1988-08-11, Hangzhou，Zhejiang Province，China

History

Gu Xiaogang, A native of Fuyang, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, born in Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province in 1988, graduated from Zhejiang Sci-Tech University in 2012 with a major in fashion design and marketing. He loves painting, film, and other arts. As a junior, he became obsessed with movies and began independent image creation, documentary filming, and advertising, A short story, and then participated in the tenth issue of Li Xianting Film Academy in Songzhuang. His main works include documentaries "Planting Life" and "The Believers". He currently lives in Beijing and studied in the director department of Beijing Film Academy. The planned long-roll film "A Thousand Miles of the East", the first volume of "Spring River Plumbing" was filmed in four seasons in two years, and was selected as the "Critics Week" at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and was selected as the closing film.

Profile

Gu Xiaogang

Movies

The Sail of Cinema
The Sail of Cinema
Writer
A commercial commissioned by FIRST film festival and LEXUS company. A side story short of Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains.
The Sail of Cinema
The Sail of Cinema
Director
A commercial commissioned by FIRST film festival and LEXUS company. A side story short of Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains.
Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains
Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains
Screenplay
At her 70th birthday celebration, the aged mother of the Gu family suffers from a stroke, which precipitates her decline into dementia. Who will take care of her? The four brothers face crucial changes in their relationships to one another, as they deal with their own family problems. Their destinies, linked by love and challenged by questions and dilemmas, unfold over the course of the four seasons, as it would in an ancient Chinese scroll painting.
Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains
Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains
Director
At her 70th birthday celebration, the aged mother of the Gu family suffers from a stroke, which precipitates her decline into dementia. Who will take care of her? The four brothers face crucial changes in their relationships to one another, as they deal with their own family problems. Their destinies, linked by love and challenged by questions and dilemmas, unfold over the course of the four seasons, as it would in an ancient Chinese scroll painting.
For One More Day
For One More Day
Writer
A group of young people having a dinner together, during which they shared their personal experiences and played them out through a game.
For One More Day
For One More Day
Director
A group of young people having a dinner together, during which they shared their personal experiences and played them out through a game.
Planting for Life
Planting for Life
Cinematography
Old Jia gave up his city life and returned to the countryside with his wife. He abandoned chemical fertilizer to practice natural farming. His philosophy attracted a big group of admirers from the city, whereas local villagers disagreed on his approaches.
Planting for Life
Planting for Life
Director
Old Jia gave up his city life and returned to the countryside with his wife. He abandoned chemical fertilizer to practice natural farming. His philosophy attracted a big group of admirers from the city, whereas local villagers disagreed on his approaches.
Natural Farmer JIA
Natural Farmer JIA
Director
The story is about Lao Jia, a farmer on Chongming Island, Shanghai. On this island, he applies natural farming to show his wish and love to the land. Lao Jia calls himself a natural farmer. He left the metropolis Shanghai and his wife LiZi for Chongming Island three year ago. There Lao Jia contracted a farmland of about 25 acres. Without using any fertilizers or chemicals, he believes in his land and tries to plant with an ancient agriculture philosophy of returning the land to nature, which is the so called natural farming. Lao Jia said: “Farming helps people to find back some simple but real things in life, and the farmers’ emotions will in return affect the land and the plants.” Now there are many people who agree with his idea. But the reality is cruel, when Lao Jia described to me his wish to his land, problems keeps cropping up to test his attitude of “re-discovering the love to land”.
Dwelling by the West Lake
Dwelling by the West Lake
Writer
Second chapter of Shanshui Painting series from Gu. A story of mother and son in Hangzhou.
Dwelling by the West Lake
Dwelling by the West Lake
Director
Second chapter of Shanshui Painting series from Gu. A story of mother and son in Hangzhou.