Urgent: Preserve the Source of the Ethnic Arts of Our People
Spokespeople: Liu Xiaojin, Hou Baoyuan (Yi), Luo Fengxue (Yi)
Organization: Yuansheng Music & Dance Studio
E-mail: kmxiao@hotmail.com
Ten years ago, Liu Xiaojin followed musician Tian Feng as he founded the Yunnan Nationalities Institute of Culture, an institute dedicated to the preservation of the art of ethnic minorities. Unfortunately, the attempt was not a success. This film presents the state of the ethnic art scene in Yunnan before the creation of the Institute, along with the rise and decline of the institution. It attempts to observe from its experience the revival of ethnic music and dance in the context of globalization, economic reform and wide-scale tourism.
Recently, the filmmaker reunited the previous members of the Institute and formed the Yuansheng Music & Dance Studio, thus helping ethnic music take a step down the long road of self-preservation.
Tian Feng and the Nationalities Institute
2005/Color/ Betacam & DV /300min
Location: Yunnan
Filmmaker: Liu Xiaojin
Producer: Ma Xiaodong
Organization: International Department of Yunnan TV
E-mail: kmxiao@hotmail.com
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