New York Film Festival Podcast, ep. 2: "The Ghost Town podcast."
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Our second podcast looks at a film that has its' international premiere tomorrow at the New York Film Festival: Zhao Dayong's Ghost Town.
Split into three parts ( Voices, Recollection, Innocence) this doc explores culture and experiences of Zhiziluo, a town nestled among the mountains in Southern China. Yet you won't find a formal structure with narrator droning on about the town life.
Instead, Ghost Town begins with a stationary shot on a street. As one villager passes by, "Why are you filming this? This is boring."
There is something inherently fascinating about this structured, yet entirely unstructured glimpse of a culture and people who seem unsure whether they want to leave behind their way of life for the big cities, or simply deteriorate with their village.
Joining me is Vadim Rizov (IFC's Indie Eye) and Kevin B. Lee (Also Like Life and Vice President of Programming and Education for DGenerateFilms.)
disclosure: Kevin has been on our original House Next Door podcast in previous episodes and still hosts the original audio files.
[img via Dgenerate Films]
Our second podcast looks at a film that has its' international premiere tomorrow at the New York Film Festival: Zhao Dayong's Ghost Town.
Split into three parts ( Voices, Recollection, Innocence) this doc explores culture and experiences of Zhiziluo, a town nestled among the mountains in Southern China. Yet you won't find a formal structure with narrator droning on about the town life.
Instead, Ghost Town begins with a stationary shot on a street. As one villager passes by, "Why are you filming this? This is boring."
There is something inherently fascinating about this structured, yet entirely unstructured glimpse of a culture and people who seem unsure whether they want to leave behind their way of life for the big cities, or simply deteriorate with their village.
Joining me is Vadim Rizov (IFC's Indie Eye) and Kevin B. Lee (Also Like Life and Vice President of Programming and Education for DGenerateFilms.)
disclosure: Kevin has been on our original House Next Door podcast in previous episodes and still hosts the original audio files.
[img via Dgenerate Films]
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