Chronological Ferry: The Zhou Family (2020)
장르 : 다큐멘터리
상영시간 : 2시간 0분
연출 : Guo Xizhi
시놉시스
This documentary, edited over a period of six years, spans 20 years in the lifetime of three families of workers who were made redundant by their company. This work is divided into four parts, each part focusing on one family, the Zhou family, the He family and the Tao family, as well as one part about my hometown. This four-part documentary is an attempt to take a closer look at the process of privatisation in China over the past 20 years.
An ice sculpture in a northern city, a marching band, and the bitter silence on the radio.
With the background of a large number of Guangdong factories’ relocation abroad. The story focuses on several young workers, who try to rid anxiety through love, but slowly drowning in love struggles.
A desperate man, who is down and out, says that a group of people following him is trying to give the sleepy city a shot in the arm by planting a flower of idealism out of the ruins. And with the purpose of "if there's no enough vitality, use desperate strength to gather together", they begin to look for service/preaching targets. At the same time, there's an elder sister who has locked her younger brother in the home for a long time, the younger brother got the chance to the outside world accidentally however.
An orphan mutters his personal history in The Good Place. He is getting louder and louder because he doesn’t want his history to be locked in the small dark room forever just as his body has suffered. Little Bunny is who he says the most intimate person in his life. It turns out he and Little Bunny share the same history.
Lil Qi works for publicity department of student union, editing promotional video of student union general election meeting. After clip is finished, a news from China Central Televison changed "the film".
Xuan is a young man working in the film industry in Beijing. To make a documentary film that he wants to present at international festivals, he decides to take advantage of the holidays of the Day of the Dead to return to Chengdu, his hometown located at the other end of the country. The documentary he is about to make is about his relationship with his own lover. He leaves for Chengdu, accompanied by another man, Bo, the cameraman of the film. The two men take the train to Chengdu where Hong, Xuan's lover, is waiting for them. From the first moment of their arrival at the station, Xuan and Bo begin to turn with their camera, Xuan having already explained to Bo what he wanted to film and that Hong would always be "playing", Bo then trusting in Xuan. But Hong is more and more opposed to this camera and the presence of Bo.
Don't forget to have poetry when making a living. This is romance. Even if you live in a sheepfold, you have a holy smile like a baby. This is romance. Listening to folk songs from the workers' hometown at the construction site in Shenzhen is touching. Once the song stops, you become eager for it. This singing series is also called "Sharing Hometown" and “Lingering Songs". You see, the eyes of the singing workers are shining, because we are all close to the Buddha.
One day in June, a man appeared on the scene. He went on a blind date with a woman and a woman's man, yet for the meal, he used the carrots that his wife asked him to buy in the morning. He had nothing to do, wandering in romance and the opposite of romance, wandering between the authenticity and vanity of life, until, he made a decision: revitalize China.
It has been forty years since the Sanmen Gorge project, a great dam high across the Yellow River at Sanmen Gorge, was completed. It's construction has had a large impact on the environment and the people. Among these are conflicts with local farmers, resettlement and life in exile of villagers, flooding and economical development.
Bai Sanming, a Chinese farmer, plays Mao Zedong for a living. This strange and absurd phenomenon has formed a unique and complete industrial chain in China. This documentary depicts this absurd and realistic behavior. At the same time, the documentary also brings out the special ideological trend that has existed since the last century, based on the crazy personality cult of Mao Zedong.
Two families' oral history of the Cultural Revolution and their current life.
In 1978 Deng Xiaoping set up Shenzhen as a Special Economic Zone in China, and this decision led to the rapid development of Guangdong economy. Numerous factories have been established, millions of people are attracted because of gold rush. Over 30 years later, young people who were away from their home have already stepped in the midlife. Guangdong has become a representative of job hunting and has been drawing a newly young generation who has faith and uncertainty to the future. This video revolves around three working-class boys who are the 90s generation.
It is recommended to watch "Catch the Ghost" first, then watch the film. On the third day of the first lunar month, in Dongchenlou Village, Yuncheng County, family and nephews gathered. Hengxin concealed his parents and started a drinking contest with his brother.
Four college students from Shandong University of Technology planned to make a documentary about the folk culture of ghosts and spirits. They went to a village in Heze City, Shandong Province, and made some interviews with local villagers. During the interviews, they heard a lot of local weird tales. The shooting of the documentary went smoothly, and that night, they chose to stay in the village. At this point, strange things, however, began to happen...
On the 29th lunar New Year's Eve of the twelfth lunar month of a certain year, it was getting late in Guangzhou. A trance-looking boy drove through the urban jungle, wandering alone on the streets, waiting to meet his girlfriend a few years ago, expecting a result to happen. In an old town, a middle-aged woman brought a girl along the street to beg for food. At the gate of a certain community, they encountered a middle-aged man who was driving around after drinking and eating. The man invited them to have a barbecue at a roadside stall and made a suggestion. In a hospital, two security guards were bored at the gate. After work, I decided to go to a certain village in a city and village to win money after work. Unexpectedly, the night was getting thicker and the flow of people was surging. The Spring Festival Gala is going on grandly, and the air is full of noise and anxiety, three realities Event, tearing apart the absurd reality of the crazy city•••
In the noisy urban village of Guangzhou lived a young man who made his living peddling drugs to medical staff. One day, at a hair salon near his home, he met a hair salon girl who never received patrons. They gradually became familiar with each other, and he learned that the girl had a boyfriend who was a security guard in Dongguan.
The Check Fun Store is an innovative business model. Every store is divided into hundreds of small checks to display and sell a wide range of creative products provided by people who rent these checks. Thanks to its risk diversification nature, the Check Fun Store business model proliferated in Taiwan when the financial crisis hit in 2007 to carry people through the global economic downturn.
Yulin, once the poorest region of Northwest China, has rapidly become "China's Kuwait" for the mining industry launched in recent years. People rush into the coal mine and other coal-related businesses, hoping to get rich overnight. They are possessed by anxiety and restlessness. However, it seems they have no other choices…
In northern Shaanxi, those three-wheeled trucks who came to the city from rural areas came to be suffering. They talked hard and finally sent their children to distant universities. Four years have passed, the big children can't find a job, the future is uncertain, the smaller children have come to the age of the university. It seems to be in the instinct, a family is still like a hen hatch, waiting for the new hope to break out.