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All Movements Should Kill the Wind

Wang Yuyan | France | 2019 | 12' | | IFFR 2020

Man shapes his environment, which shapes his brain. Two hundred kilometres from Beijing, men live in a stone quarry amidst rocks that are waiting to be hacked, cut and sanded into sculptures. The same gestures come back again and again, to write a history of deterioration and repair. In the making of monuments, history is obliterated.

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Film details

Country of production
France
Year
2019
Festival edition
IFFR 2020
Length
12"
Medium/Format
DCP

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