Shadow Life
2011, English. Directed by Cao Fei.
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 labor of workers and peasants, while the silhouette medium allows quick metamorphoses of 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 sound track to the third part, Transmigration—a farcical rejoinder to Mao’s cover of Marxism-Leninism.
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- 0h 10m
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- English
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- 8 July 2011
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Shadow Life isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 8 July 2011. (Checked 8 November 2026.)
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Who directed Shadow Life?
Shadow Life (2011) was directed by Cao Fei.