A Portrait of Mr. Huang

  • 40'
  • China
  • 2009

Part of Qiu Jiongjiong’s 'chatterbox' oral history trilogy, this short documentary focuses on current storyteller and ex-cop Huang Songnian. Qiu playfully splices montage cuts between Huang’s wildly entertaining, sometimes very dark stories of intrepid forensic police work (including a super queasy tale of maggots and a body, and another of rural cannibalism), and disruptive yet oddly suitable Sichuan opera excerpts, pigeon portraits, and Qiu’s charming chalk drawings.

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Available on Festival Scope Pro from 26 January 9:00 CET to 14 February 9:00 CET



  • 40'
  • China
  • 2009
Director
Qiu Jiongjiong
Country of production
China
Year
2009
Festival Edition
P&I Selection 2022
Length
40'
Medium
Digital
Original title
Huang lao lao pai an
Language
Chinese
Producer
Qiu Jiongjiong
Sales
Qiu Jiongjiong
Screenplay
Qiu Jiongjiong
Cinematography
Qiu Jiongjiong
Editor
Qiu Jiongjiong
Sound Design
Qiu Jiongjiong
Cast
Huang Songnian
Director
Qiu Jiongjiong
Country of production
China
Year
2009
Festival Edition
P&I Selection 2022
Length
40'
Medium
Digital
Original title
Huang lao lao pai an
Language
Chinese
Producer
Qiu Jiongjiong
Sales
Qiu Jiongjiong
Screenplay
Qiu Jiongjiong
Cinematography
Qiu Jiongjiong
Editor
Qiu Jiongjiong
Sound Design
Qiu Jiongjiong
Cast
Huang Songnian

Programme IFFR 2022

Focus: Qiu Jiongjiong

Qiu Jiongjiong is one of China’s most innovative, critical, and entertaining artists/filmmakers, whose works joyously blur the boundaries between fiction, documentary, and experimental cinema. Intimate memory and national history resonate in Qiu’s baroque rhapsodies of music and design. We present seven of his films including his new masterwork A New Old Play.

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