Yumen

2013, Chinese. Directed by J.P. Sniadecki & Xu Ruotao & Huang Xiang.

Set in a quasi-ghost town that once thrived with oil in China's arid northwest, Yumen is a haunting, fragmented tale of hungry souls, restless youth, a wandering artist and a lonely woman, all searching for human connection among the town's crumbling landscape. One part "ruin porn", one part "ghost story”, and entirely shot on 16mm, the film brings together performance art, narrative gesture, and social realism not only to play with convention and defy genre, but also to pay homage to a disappearing life-world and a fading medium.

Runtime

1h 5m

Post-credits

None listed

Language

Chinese

Rated

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