From a Beijing apartment, a woman is writing postcards to a man in London. We do not see the woman or the man; we only see the camera contemplating Beijing with a melancholy eye. Each postcard is a long static shot.
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Soft
Father is confronted with fears when a street gang terrorises him and his son. Oppressive fiction about fatherhood and manliness. -
OOIOO UMO
Call it primitive, at least it’s a funny and swinging puppet animation. And a dance to save the world. -
Getijden
For this visual essay, Doing use a variety of film formats and emotions. The camerawork is intuitive, the editing musical and associative. A joy for… -
Weiss
Sober, focused black & white animation about a human figure and his shadow, or is it his mirror image? -
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Joy
Virtuoso, lyrical fiction in one take about the disappearance of a teenage girl in a park, from the Desperate Optimists (Short Profile 2007). -
Film details
- Country of production
- China
- Year
- 2008
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2008
- Length
- 10'
- Medium/Format
- Betacam Digi PAL
