‘Film has become abnormal, nauseating, secular and degenerate. And Chinese films have become especially abnormal, nauseating, secular and degenerate,’ according to the young director Wu Haohao. Using boring speeches, interviews, voice-overs, portraits and tirades, he deconstructs today’s China, in the hope of giving his contemporaries a wake-up call. ‘I hereby found the New Communist Party. In order to distinguish ourselves from the old party, we explicitly call ourselves the New Communist Party.’ Philosophising is juxtaposed with explicit sex, sex with poetry, poetry with horrendous life stories in which the Chinese specialize in this film. Wu Haohao reveals himself to be an unpolished provocateur with a preference for bombast and irony. Battle songs reverberate in satirical versions, monuments are desecrated with red stars, day trippers are terrified by wild screaming. Kun1 Action is a very serious, self-aware collage with a wink at Jean-Luc Godard.
Film details
- Country of production
- China
- Year
- 2008
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2010
- Length
- 79'
- Medium/Format
- Mini DV PAL
