本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛A subtle combination of documentary and fiction filmmaking, Luo Li's remarkable Rivers and My Father was inspired by stories from his father's childhood. Li inventively structures sound, image and narration, evoking the ways in which memory operates.
The filmmaker and his family grew up along the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) in China, which serves as the backdrop on which the film's stories unfold. Seen from a distance in both time and space, and in relation to contemporary forms of migration, these stories flow like rivers on a map of the past.
The film begins in the nondescript offices and hallways of York University with an employee who is about to retire. The man comments on the passing of time and how 2010 once seemed like the distant future. This conversation sets the tone of the film, where the ordinary details of daily life take on a universal quality. These unique personal experiences convey collectively understood feelings of, as Li puts it, "inbetweenness, uncertainty and the indeterminacy."
Opening Night Gala! Rivers and My Father
Thursday 31 Mar 2011, 7 PM
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The filmmaker and his family grew up along the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) in China, which serves as the backdrop on which the film's stories unfold. Seen from a distance in both time and space, and in relation to contemporary forms of migration, these stories flow like rivers on a map of the past.
The film begins in the nondescript offices and hallways of York University with an employee who is about to retire. The man comments on the passing of time and how 2010 once seemed like the distant future. This conversation sets the tone of the film, where the ordinary details of daily life take on a universal quality. These unique personal experiences convey collectively understood feelings of, as Li puts it, "inbetweenness, uncertainty and the indeterminacy."
Opening Night Gala! Rivers and My Father
Thursday 31 Mar 2011, 7 PM
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