In fact, I have long wanted to make a WeChat article to review that period of time, but the reason why I did not start writing for a long time is that time has passed too long, not only the memory is blurred, but even the feeling of passion at that time has disappeared. Speaking of which, I still have to thank this epidemic for making me realize that if I don't make some changes physically and mentally, my whole life will really die like quicksand on my hands.
Now there is very little such thing as DV, now it is basically called short films or micro-movies, fifteen years ago, DV is synonymous with all non-professional films. Fifteen years on, no one seems to be talking about DV anymore. Young people pick up their phones at the dinner table to watch short videos from 15 seconds to one minute. Short videos are easy, entertaining, and entertaining. Life is already so hard that people don't have any more time to be profound. But at that time, DV was the "catalyst" for post-80s imagers. A DV digital video camera of tens of thousands or even thousands of dollars, a computer with DV editing software installed can achieve image dreams, just like the young people in the 1980s called themselves "poets" with a fountain pen, and the post-80s were full of "directors", although the DV in his (her) hands may only be borrowed by the dead beggars. Now, in this era of carrying passages, China's original images seem to have ushered in the darkest moment. And where are those creators who were once post-80s?
(Source: "9:61 minutes of China's new generation of post-80s video author record" Bi Shan )
Zhang Detov, Lin Dimin, Huang Kai, Lou Yi, Jiao Yang, Jiang Jinwen, Ren Ping, Zhou Yu, Xu Li, Zhang Xiangfeng, Lu Zhengyu, Ding Xiaoyang, Wei Zheng... After all, this group of "naïve" or "precocious" or "cynical" video authors must quit at the right time to find another means of livelihood in order to survive, and there are really very few who persist in becoming masters and becoming "masters" (film and television skilled technicians).
Posters of early DV films
Perfect Animal (Zhang Detov)
My Sun (Wei Zheng)
Mo Xiaobai's Water Monster Diary (Lu Zhengyu)
My love is great
Bus
Yes, I "shamelessly" put the poster of my own work up, which can not blame me, the time is too long, many film posters can not be found, and at that time, there was no sense of poster, many films did not have posters at all, so take my own to make a bit of it.
Although many video authors left for various reasons, some of them stayed and continued to cultivate the film and television industry, and the more successful ones should be Wei Zheng, who later filmed the "Love Apartment" series, and Lu Zhengyu, who was invited by Zhou Xingchi to be the co-screenwriter of "The Mermaid". The director Li Yang, who produced the domestic animation god work "The Adventures of Li Xianji", has not been heard from, some people have seen him shooting weddings, and some people say that he is still dead with the movie "Safe Evacuation from the 21st Century", which has been established a few years ago. Huang Kai, who shot the theatrical film "Shanghai Park" and was shortlisted for major film festivals, seems to have disappeared.
Love Apartment (Wei Zheng)
Peerless Master (Lu Zhengyu)
The Adventures of Li Xianji (Li Yang)
Shanghai Park (Huang Kai)
From 2005 to 2020, fifteen years have passed. In the past fifteen years, watching this group of grassroots creators who originated from the Internet, some step by step from the small screen to the big screen, some hiding in obscurity in the city, occasionally turning out previous works to recall their youth. Success or failure is as full of ups and downs as our lives. In any case, everyone is the director of their own life, in the stumbling life, as long as you can find the road you want to take the rest of your life, it is enough, you say?
Dedicated to our lost youth!