On the evening of November 6th, the first Mingfengtang International Youth Video Festival was held on the 8th floor of ELGALA HALL in Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City, and more than 500 people from the Chinese Consul General in Fukuoka, He Zhenliang, representatives of 9 Chinese universities participating in the competition, 28 Chinese and Japanese participants, Chinese and Japanese film and television circles, and more than 500 people from Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan, Europe and the United States, Tokyo, Fukuoka and other countries and regions participated in the festival. The rankings of the 31 award-winning works of the Video Festival were announced and awarded at the award ceremony.
Wang Yiyu, a student from the Beijing Film Academy, received the honor of the "Mingfengtang Grand Prize", the highest award of this year's film festival, and received a prize of 1 million yen.
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Director: Wang Yiyu
Institution: Beijing Film Academy
Perception
"Film is a kind of video art, mixed with music, pictures and dialogue, they are mixed into emotions that can bring the audience a strong sense of perception and spiritual resonance through specific lenses", this is my most profound experience after watching the short film "Swimming Home", because it brings me a different sensory experience and indescribable psychological emotions.
Hitchcock embraced the idea of "pure cinema" production during his filmmaking career. That is, pay attention to the image narrative, through the picture to explain the text structure, rather than replacing the short film into a kind of "talking photo". In this thirty-minute long narrative, the director applies the concept of a master filmmaker throughout the film.
One of the scenes that impressed me the most was when the male protagonist, Fang Kerou, knew that he was not born to his parents, he learned to drink alcohol to dispel his sorrows, deliberately practiced tongue curls, and cut the hair on the top of his head into the shape of his father... In addition to the childish behavior, we feel not only the simple stubborn psychology of being a child, but also the heartache of a young and sensitive mind. It can be said that the director's handling of this paragraph is really remarkable. He does not use dialogue, monologues and other line elements to stimulate contradictions, but only expresses emotions through pictures and images.
The intention of this film is to interpret the word "warmth" to the fullest. It is not to rise to a macro social perspective, but to settle in a family. Each of us is not an independent individual, so such a background setting is more likely to resonate with the audience to a certain extent. In addition to the theme conveyed by the short film, what I want to say is: May everyone step on the way home.