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If he’d had the time after meeting American captains of industry in Seattle and Barack Obama at the White House, Chinese President Xi Jinping might have ducked out at the close of his United Nations appearance and into a New York movie theater to check on how China’s other soft power ambassadors its movies, not its pandas are playing to American audiences.Struggling to get off
Cultural treasure emerges from backwaters By Sun Ruisheng in Taiyuan and Li Yang | China Daily | Updated: 2021-05-11 11:02 Share
Movie director Jia Zhangke from Shanxi province. CHINA DAILY
In 1998, Jia Zhangke put his hometown of Fenyang in Shanxi province on the cinematic map when it featured as the backdrop for his film
Xiao Wu, the one that placed him under the spotlight.
Known as
The Pickpocket overseas, the film was recognized at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival and launched the career of Jia, one of the key members of the so-called sixth generation of Chinese film directors.
After the breakthrough, Shanxi was prominently featured in the films of directors from the province, who said it was their way of repaying their home.
The place you re born… is the place that half-buries you. The Cinema Guild has debuted a new official US trailer for the acclaimed Chinese documentary
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue, made by the prolific director
Jia Zhang-Ke (aka Jia Zhangke), of
A Touch of Sin,
Mountains May Depart, and
Ash Is Purest White previously. This originally premiered at last year s Berlin Film Festival as one of the opening day films. Filmmaker Jia Zhangke chronicles his local literature festival in Shanxi, China which includes a multi-generational roster of the country s most esteemed writers. He speaks with three prominent authors from different eras, who discuss life growing up and the changes over time as the country (and their region) evolves and adapts to difficult times. Reviews describe the film as a quietly moving piece, paying tribute to writers who connect modern urban culture to its provincial roots, and the current era to one that s quickly being lost to living memory.
by Norman Wilner on December 18th, 2020 at 12:30 PM 1 of 2 2 of 2
Swimming Out Until The Sea Turns Blue
(
Yi zhi you dao hai shui bian lan)
A documentary by Jia Zhangke. In Mandarin, with English subtitles. Streaming at VIFF Connect from Friday (December 18) to January 14.
Chinese master Jia Zhangke’s first documentary in over a decade after a run of ambitious narrative features like
A Touch Of Sin,
Mountains May Depart, and
Ash Is Purest White uses a literary festival in the filmmaker’s home province of Shanxi to explore the last few decades of Chinese history from the perspective of three writers from different generations: Jia Pingwa, and Yu Hua and Liang Hong.