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Hello Brooklyn!
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 are Vadim Rizov (IFC's Indie Eye) and Kevin B. Lee (Also Like Life and Vice President of Programming and Education for dGenerate Films.)
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Ghost Town premieres tomorrow at the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center at 2:15 pm.
Disclosure: Kevin has been on our original House Next Door podcast and hosts all of the episodes on his server.
[dGenerate Films-Ghost Town]
[podcast img via dGenerate Films]
Hello Brooklyn!
Our second podcast looks at a film that has its'... more
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Hello Brooklyn!
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]Hello Brooklyn!
Our second podcast looks at a film that has its' international... more
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OVER the course of six years Zhao Dayong, an independent filmmaker from Guangzhou, China, spent many months living among the residents of Zhiziluo, an impoverished and forgotten village in the rugged mountains near the Myanmar border, and filming their lives.
Using his own money and simple digital filmmaking equipment he made “Ghost Town,” a quiet, hypnotizing, three-hour documentary that provides an extraordinary and intimate portrait of Chinese life.
Like independent filmmakers everywhere, Mr. Zhao worked with no guarantee of an audience, or even a place to show his work. By his estimates only a few thousand people have seen “Ghost Town” in China since he finished it last year. Several hundred more are scheduled to see it Sunday afternoon when the film has its international premiere at the New York Film Festival.OVER the course of six years Zhao Dayong, an independent filmmaker from Guangzhou,... more
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