In 2022, "Hot Sound" takes the theme of "free expression" to open a new season of film, and meets with everyone in a richer form.
The Hot Sound 2022 Concept Film "Free Expression"
Over the past two weeks, many people have repeatedly visited a shot in which Pang Kuan of the New Pants Band is on a 2.5-square-meter stage, 24x7, and the camera does not stop.
Some people questioned that this was a performance of Bo Hot, going to the toilet and brushing his mobile phone in full view of everyone, which was boring.
It is also said that this is a facsimile of reality, and just under the lens, the performer conveys some indescribable experience. At the same time, the viewer can feel strongly that "we" and "they" are coexisting.
The Pang kuan isolation observation table spontaneously established by netizens is a different kind of real connection.
The philosopher Han Bingzhe quoted Heidegger in The Disappearance of the Other, saying of experience: "'Something happens around us, we meet it, we encounter it, we are overthrown by it, we are changed by it.'" Its essence is suffering. Violent collisions, indescribable shocks or confusions, unsolvable real dilemmas, unforgettable twists and turns... We are changed by experience, and expression makes the possibilities of change even wider.
In the hot 2021 shortlisted work "Between Light and Darkness", the monologue after the protagonist and his family have a conflict.
Relying on the sinking technology, we see a richer world, a more diverse life, and social media is both an adhesive and an island of fragmentation. In this era of frequent uncertainty and the increasingly urgent impulse of individual voices, the echoes of each specific sound are changing something.
As a form of expression closest to "direct reality", non-fiction imagery is both "lifting the camera and focusing on the fleeting present" and "going deep into the jungle of the past and the future, thinking about the intertwined causes and effects". It doesn't have to be grand, it's not even necessarily instantaneous, but it must have a real power for the author and the viewer to encounter in a specific story, to think together, how do we get here, and how do we go to the future?
To record is to think. /The Man with the Camera
In the 2021 #HotTest, we see more than 300 specific lives.
Someone photographed a grandmother with Alzheimer's holding a picture of herself kissing;
Someone photographed the choice between the youth in Tibetan areas between their hometown and the city;
Someone photographed the grandparents slowly telling their marriage stories;
Someone photographed the daily love and contradictions between lovers;
Someone photographed the loneliness behind a twilight love date...
The grandmother in the hot 2021 finalist "When You're Old" faces the crowd.
These precious individual stories constitute the real world of the moment.
Social media is noisy again, when we turn to the life around us, try to understand the differences, face the complexity of life, the heart is no longer just floating in a daze. There are small boats between the isolated islands, and there are cracks between the cocoons, connecting us and making us think deeply.
Images connect us. / Stills from "The Man with the Camera"
What is true? How to express "truth"? "Hot Sound" believes that the truth is the concrete story, the truth is the emotional resonance, and the truth is what is happening in the moment.
Stories come from life, and life drives us to express themselves. "Hot Sound" wants to expand more possibilities around the two starting points of "story" and "expression": "Hot Sound" collects stories and is committed to promoting the sincere works to more audiences and platforms; "Hot Sound" builds screenings and reaches dialogue, hoping to gather the community identified by young people, promote understanding, and promote exchanges.
We are looking for creators and works with enthusiastic growth, and we have always believed in the great force of life, hidden in the connection between the daily life of ordinary people and the macro world.
What we believe, as Kazuo Ishiguro put it in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, said: "They are often small, not glamorous moments. They are silent, intimate sparks of revelation. They are not common, and when they come, perhaps there is no trumpet sounding in unison... But when they come, we must recognize their significance. Otherwise, they will drain from your fingers. "Through this excavation, we hope to convey the power of images, to perceive the brilliance of life, and to enable everyone, whether creators or viewers, to have a new connection, a feeling and power that surges inward."
Look forward to seeing life in your lens.
"Free" means free and unrestrained; in Buddhism, "free" refers to the power to enlighten oneself and re-enlighten people; "freedom" in Western philosophy refers to things that have not yet been prescribed and are prescriptive in themselves.
What we see and hear every day, the environment and weather we live in, the friends and lovers we face... Everything that surrounds the "I" is the driving force that drives us to express, and sincere expression is more able to break through differences and opposites and promote understanding and dialogue.
Creative Unit - Limited Time Short Film Creation Contest
For a limited time, we look forward to seeing different creative expressions
July, stay tuned
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New Weekly's original documentary video column focuses on the story of the "game breaker". It has launched more than 30 short documentary films, with nearly 70 million plays on the whole network, the total number of topics read exceeding 1 billion, and a number of high-quality short videos have received millions of traffic, triggering Weibo hot search topics many times. In 2021, the first season of "Hot Sound" non-fiction short film collection campaign was launched.
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