Shadow Life evokes folklore and Communist festivals. The vignettes are performed by shadow puppets; the form of the hand is a synecdoche for the manual labour of workers and peasants, while the silhouette medium allows quick metamorphoses: a grandstanding dictator to a barking dog, a swaying tree to a crane transforming the landscape. A remake of a 2000 Russian pop hit serves as the soundtrack to the third part, Transmigration. (CF)
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Generator
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As ondas
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Film details
- Country of production
- China
- Year
- 2011
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2012
- Length
- 10"
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
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