The Alleys
116'
Jordan
P&I Selection 2022
Like many, throughout 2020 Chinese-born, US-based filmmaker Zhengfan Yang (Where Are You Going, IFFR 2016) looked closer at his immediate surroundings. From his apartment complex in Chicago, the filmmaker records ostensibly quotidian scenes: people walking, window cleaners, street sweepers; life viewed from inside a bubble.
This seemingly safe bubble is soon overlayed by audio excerpts from local police radio. At a time when US law enforcement came under particular attack, the audio track reveals a more complex reality, without taking sides. Through the police response team radio communications, brief insights into various unconnected urban realities follow each other in quick succession: from absurd or seemingly trivial scenes, to violent eruptions. The contrasting visual and audio layers provide an exceptional personal reflection, during a simmering historical moment, in an exceptional year spent in isolation.
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Available on Festival Scope Pro from 26 January 9:00 CET to 9 February 9:00 CET


P&I Selection 2022
Programme IFFR 2022
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P&I Selection 2022
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P&I Selection 2022
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P&I Selection 2022