(香河)

Content: A 15 part film featuring scenes from Xianghe, running from the mundane to the surreal: people parade in opera costumes, slaughter pigs in public and dine on the fields; they bury the dead and get married, tickling the bride and groom, everything done without speech. Sitting somewhere between intimate personal reels and detached ethnographic records, the work creates a simultaneous sense of immersion and distance – of the type you might associate with end-of-life flashbacks. Yang gives nostalgia a fantastic, mystical bent, as if to suggest that to revel in memory is a creative act.

Countries:

China

Genres:

History,

Romance,

Documentary

Runtime:

405 minutes

Year:

2025

Directors:

Yang Fudong

Production companies:

ShanghART Gallery,

Marian Goodman Gallery,

Xu Wei,

Xu Weida,

8G Studio,

Soundink,

Lynn Lai Studio,

Y-Space

Actors:

Crews:

Director

Screenplay

Executive Producer

Camera Operator

Production Design