Xiānghé

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.

• Yang FudongDirector
• Yang FudongScreenplay

• Tan ZhuoCast
• Lv YulaiCast
• Wang YangCast
• Zhang XinzhongCast
• Huang AilingCast
• Li BoCast
• Guo JiaweiCast
• Guo WanchaoCast
• Wang XudongCast
• Wang QuanxiCast
• Li YanCast
• Jin RuiCast