Xenson is no ordinary filmmaker. He has a background as a visual artist. He is a painter and a fashion designer with an urban line of clothing for a young public. He has close connections to those creating hip-hop music and himself makes music videos. This experience, this background, can be found in the film he made in China. For it, he adopted an improvised and experimental style.
He chose the image of the snake for his film. A ‘Musota’, an African snake, visits Beijing. He enjoys himself, causes an occasional disturbance and focuses especially on two small friends, Peng Liu Wei and Liu Yu, who he finds at the market in Songzhuang. He discovers messages from diaries written during the Cultural Revolution, as collected by the performance artist Yang Zhichao. The life of the snake would never be the same again.
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Film details
- Countries of production
- China, Uganda
- Year
- 2011
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2011
- Length
- 56"
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
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