Shadow Life evokes folklore and Communist festivals. The vignettes are performed by shadow puppets; the form of the hand is a synecdoche for the manual labour of workers and peasants, while the silhouette medium allows quick metamorphoses: a grandstanding dictator to a barking dog, a swaying tree to a crane transforming the landscape. A remake of a 2000 Russian pop hit serves as the soundtrack to the third part, Transmigration. (CF)
- Director
- Cao Fei
- Premiere
- European premiere
- Country of production
- China
- Year
- 2011
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2012
- Length
- 10'
- Medium
- HDcam
- Language
- no dialogue
- Producer
- Cao Fei
- Sales
- Cao Fei
- Screenplay
- Cao Dan, Cao Fei
- Website
- http://www.caofei.com