Ashes of Time Chinese Independent Documentary Film Festival
Ashes of Time Chinese Independent Documentary Film Festival selects 10 non-fiction works, focusing on the diversity of contemporary China, and striving to show a different kind of Chinese society's diversified landscape. By focusing on a traditional Chinese family relationship, or a group of failed young people who are immersed in their own utopian world, or those individuals who have been forgotten in the trend of the times, try to supplement with diverse and vivid portraits of the characters. Observation of China's social ecology in the video world.
Their struggles and encounters in the tide of the times may be forgotten by most people, but their value and influence cannot be ignored. It's like a footless snake passing through the grass, leaving no footprints, but with its tiny but real weight, it still leaves traces of crawling. Or a burnt line, lightly skipping from the ground, can also leave a trance of smoke.
These burned traces are different from the footprints of giants, but are the struggles and burned traces of small people in the cracks of the radical changes in Chinese society in recent decades. Through the micro-records of their barbaric growth and silent disappearance, we can get a more comprehensive glimpse of the times.
As Luke Robinson pointed out, Chinese independent documentaries have a philosophical desire from the beginning, that is, not to guide the audience through ideological interpretation, but to come into contact with the ordinary and practical reality of China.
The independence of the selected film this time emphasizes this weak but not negligible, ordinary but great power. Try to show the faint light of the individual burning, and do everything possible to leave traces and influence on the surrounding world. This is the meaning of the content of the film, and it is also the creative mission of the creators of these independent Chinese documentaries. Although such creators and the groups they record are only tiny atoms in the entire macro narrative of China, their attention and discussion scope in public spaces are narrow, and they are more likely to be annihilated in an instant. The burning of sincerity, just like the old saying that the grass-grey snake line, the veins are thousands of miles, is the trace of the real existence of every starlight in the era of our existence at this moment. It must be recorded, and it needs to be seen urgently.
See, see everyone, see the world, see myself.
Their struggles and encounters in the tide of the times may be forgotten by most people, but their value and influence cannot be ignored. It's like a footless snake passing through the grass, leaving no footprints, but with its tiny but real weight, it still leaves traces of crawling. Or a burnt line, lightly skipping from the ground, can also leave a trance of smoke.
These burned traces are different from the footprints of giants, but are the struggles and burned traces of small people in the cracks of the radical changes in Chinese society in recent decades. Through the micro-records of their barbaric growth and silent disappearance, we can get a more comprehensive glimpse of the times.
As Luke Robinson pointed out, Chinese independent documentaries have a philosophical desire from the beginning, that is, not to guide the audience through ideological interpretation, but to come into contact with the ordinary and practical reality of China.
The independence of the selected film this time emphasizes this weak but not negligible, ordinary but great power. Try to show the faint light of the individual burning, and do everything possible to leave traces and influence on the surrounding world. This is the meaning of the content of the film, and it is also the creative mission of the creators of these independent Chinese documentaries. Although such creators and the groups they record are only tiny atoms in the entire macro narrative of China, their attention and discussion scope in public spaces are narrow, and they are more likely to be annihilated in an instant. The burning of sincerity, just like the old saying that the grass-grey snake line, the veins are thousands of miles, is the trace of the real existence of every starlight in the era of our existence at this moment. It must be recorded, and it needs to be seen urgently.
See, see everyone, see the world, see myself.
