Zhou Chen

'무지'는 중국 춘절을 맞이해 고향인 항저우로 돌아오고, 그녀의 이혼한 부모님은 각자 생활을 하고 있다. 어느 날, '무지'는 그녀의 이복동생 '니우'를 학교에 데려다 주는데, 마을에 있는 바 주인이자 '니우'의 같은 반 친구의 아버지를 만난다. 동시에, '무지'의 남자 친구가 항저우에 방문한다. '무지'는 갑자기 그녀가 자신이 속해 있는 곳을 찾아 헤매던 중 길을 잃은 자기 자신을 발견한다.

런던에서 패션디자인을 공부하던 레오는 아버지가 세상을 떠난 후 자신의 고향이자 괴짜 엄마 마리아가 사는 스페인 북서부의 항구도시 히혼으로 돌아온다. 경제 위기 이후 관광객이 감소하면서 쇠락의 길을 걷고 있는 도시에서의 삶은 녹록지 않다. (제26회 부산국제영화제)

Late at night, the oven next to the bed ticks a countdown and a woman cries out to her brother the "future." Today is her brother's birthday; he is not there. Another woman arrives and takes out a white bone from the oven and takes it into the woods at night.

In an open space under an overpass on the edge of a city, a group of young people who don’t know each other gathered together. Like urban exiles, they held a ceremony to pass and watch the bones in front of a bonfire.

Contemporary Shanghai, the young gathering. A mega-structure under rapid development. Ubiquitous screens, fragmented materiality, masked crowd. We keep performing ourselves hard. Living in a space-time construction created by the times and us. Seeking for blending in and communication In many moments. We have no clue in which layer of space are we in: Virtual space, dream space, daily space, urban space, bodily space, cellphone space, social space.

Contemporary Shanghai, the young gathering. A mega-structure under rapid development. Ubiquitous screens, fragmented materiality, masked crowd. We keep performing ourselves hard. Living in a space-time construction created by the times and us. Seeking for blending in and communication In many moments. We have no clue in which layer of space are we in: Virtual space, dream space, daily space, urban space, bodily space, cellphone space, social space.

Contemporary Shanghai, the young gathering. A mega-structure under rapid development. Ubiquitous screens, fragmented materiality, masked crowd. We keep performing ourselves hard. Living in a space-time construction created by the times and us. Seeking for blending in and communication In many moments. We have no clue in which layer of space are we in: Virtual space, dream space, daily space, urban space, bodily space, cellphone space, social space.

Contemporary Shanghai, the young gathering. A mega-structure under rapid development. Ubiquitous screens, fragmented materiality, masked crowd. We keep performing ourselves hard. Living in a space-time construction created by the times and us. Seeking for blending in and communication In many moments. We have no clue in which layer of space are we in: Virtual space, dream space, daily space, urban space, bodily space, cellphone space, social space.

This is a film made from multiple cut-and-spliced together versions of ‘Chen Zhou’. The creations of ‘Chen Zhou’ derive from the many projections of him produced by his close friends. Using examples of actual conversations with artist friends such as Li Ming, Li Ran, Yu Honglei, they explore his daily life, a ‘Chen Zhou’ form of dialogue, which is then interpreted by two twins (two other Chen Zhous). A crazy person dressed all in white met by chance on the street carries out an improvised performance during the film – he is like the uncontrollable inside of Chen Zhou. The fictional Jack, and even Godard convey iconographic versions of Chen Zhou. All of these fragments put together a sorrowful picture of a ‘burial’. More accurately it is like a bare mirror that helps you to see both the film as well as a ‘Chen Zhou’ that could be somewhere in your heart.