In the rapid development of China and the world, everything around us is changing rapidly. Seeing his tall buildings rise and seeing his buildings fall, director Cong Feng called it the modern plate drift movement in "Strata 1" - people drift with the plates, and people also push the boundary.
On the evening of July 5th, the third screening of this year's Qingying Studio Graduation Exhibition, our graduates presented the time and space in their eyes that constantly collided with each other in six films, and glimpsed humanity in the gaps of boundaries. From the market to the non-existent, from the airport from scratch, when manpower can make the sea into a mulberry field, how to live in it? The Malay Archipelago is a product of plate movements, and people from there will bring two stories of Chinese families under the collision and separation. The last two films focus on the mental journey and survival of individuals wandering around the border.
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July 5 (Fri)
18:00-19:00 Tianning Market
19:00-19:30 Reclamation
19:30-19:45 Zhang Xiaoyan and Huang Tian communicate with the audience
19:45-20:15 Do you remember? 》
20:15-20:45 Daddy is not at home
20:45-21:10 Private Investigator
21:10-21:45 Dancing Students
21:45-22:00 Hong Dunle, Cheng Zhonghui, Li Zanxi, Wei Mingquan exchanged views with the audience
The event is free, no registration required, and approximately 60 seats are available on a first-come, first-served basis
Future Media Lab, Tsinghua University
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Film introduction
Tianning Market/Zhang Xiaoyan/63min
Tianning Market is located in Yuanling County, Huaihua City, Hunan Province, and was put into use in 1993. It is the iconic location of Yuanling County, the largest local bazaar, and a time space that is dying of old age. Through the tracking of returning young people to Bingjie, the film strives to restore the process of a county woman from a left-behind child to a divorced mother; in parallel, it shoots other tenants, market management offices, cleaning and transportation, trying to observe the normal life of people in county-level cities through this public space.
The film is based on the director's hometown.
The first motivation for shooting is out of curiosity: from the director's memory to the present, the appearance of the Tianning market has never changed. In today's urbanization, why can such a spatial pattern be so stable?
The second motivation for the shooting is emotional: I grew up with this market, our social relations were once intertwined with this space, and now we have moved to a different situation, but this market seems to have stayed where it is. I observe people living in it, like I can see a page of my life in the past. I would love to revisit the time this space refers to and leave it as it was for the inhabitants of the town.
Director: Zhang Xiaoyan, a 2019 master's degree graduate from the School of Journalism and Communication of Tsinghua University.
Reclamation/Huang Tian/30min
In response to the growing passenger traffic at Hong Kong Airport, the Government plans to reclaim the sea to build a third runway at Hong Kong Airport. From the perspective of mainland builders who went to Hong Kong, the documentary "Reclamation" records their construction site life and inner changes in Hong Kong's Sanpao Project for nearly a year, showing the audience the unknown side of the exchange between Hong Kong and the mainland.
Director: Huang Tian, born in 1995 in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, was admitted to the Department of Automotive Engineering of Tsinghua University in 2012 and entered the School of Journalism and Communication of Tsinghua University in 2016 to pursue a master's degree.
Do you remember? /Hung Dun Le/29min
This documentary presents the historic moment when the five sisters of the Jiang family finally met the reunion of the original third-ranked sister He Pingping in Kuching, Malaysia after nearly half a century, but what kind of family story is hidden behind the reunion? The film takes a different perspective on the reasons behind this and the impact it has had on each sister in the family. Reunion is a remembrance, but also a new beginning.
Director: Hong Dunle, Malaysian Chinese, 2019 undergraduate student of the School of Journalism and Communication of Tsinghua University, wants to record the cold and warm of the world with images, and warm the world with images.
Dad is not at home / Cheng Zhonghui / 29min
Across the river of time, in the same forest, you have never met each other. If your hometown doesn't have your name, who are you? Opening an old 1992 video, I met unfamiliar relatives and grandfathers I had never met, and I also opened a dusty time capsule. During the Spring Festival, I returned to my father's hometown, Temaru Chinese New Village, Malaysia. I didn't grow up here, but the Chinese in Malaysia have taken root here. By recording the oral history stories of the life and family of the current Malaysian Chinese new village, the film reveals the changes of a family under the background of the big era. Find the shadow of history under the appearance of life and restore a period of the past.
Dad was the eldest son, but people in the new village always thought that the second uncle was Grandma's eldest son. The third uncle did not have much impression of his father, and my aunt always had a complaining tone when she talked about my father, while my grandmother did not say anything. Through the lens I asked my father, he said that the old ancestral house in the family was built by him and his grandfather; he said that people always need to face choices and choose things of higher value. The truth is that the Chinese Village has come out of the millions of Chinese in Malaysia, and my dad is one of them. He was not at home, and he also missed the death of his grandfather.
The stories I hear when I get home are like fragments of a mirror, piecing together a life and an era that I didn't imagine.
Director: Cheng Zhonghui, a 2019 undergraduate graduate of the School of Journalism and Communication of Tsinghua University.
Private Investigator /Lee Chan Hee/23min
The film records the gray edge company founded by Li Jianjun through the lens , the private detective office. Explore and document how detectives work and live in 21st century Chinese society. The film attempts to show the life and work of gray marginalized people in a legal society by using recorded events, characters in the events and their relationships. The incident between the client and the detective caused Li Jianjun to think about social morality and human nature, revealing the contradiction between interests and morality in the depths of private detective Li Jianjun.
Director: Li Zanxi, a 2019 undergraduate graduate of the School of Journalism and Communication of Tsinghua University.
Dancer/Wei Mingquan/35min
The unremitting pursuit of dance since childhood has allowed Liu Tianyi to enter the hall of dreams - Beijing Dance Academy with confidence and vision. Faced with a new learning environment, what kind of adaptations did he encounter? In the face of education and shaping in different growth environments, how does he balance dreams and reality? And how will you find self-positioning? The exploration of the answers to these questions will run through the narrative and expression of the entire film.
Director: Wei Mingquan, a 2019 undergraduate graduate of the School of Journalism and Communication of Tsinghua University.
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