Far and Near
2003/Color/DV/23min
Location:Beijing & UK
By:Guo Xiaolu
E-mail:guoxiaolu@yahoo.com
Web: www.guoxiaolu.com
Screen
03/22 9 :00 2 hall
03/24 9: 00 3 hall
Leaving her country for the first time, a young Chinese writer wanders on a wild mountain in Wales. Through the beautiful and empty landscape and the people she meets she enters a dreamlike world where memories of life in rapidly developing Beijing, and a childhood in a poor fishing village return to her. She contemplates loneliness and is unexpectedly haunted by stories of tragic death. A poetic film, about home and loss, about poetry and reality.
Festivals and Awards
Asian American Film Festival, 2004
International Women's Film Festival Feminale, 2004
Edinburgh Film Festival, 2003
Winner of ICA Beck's Futures Prize, Sheffield Film Festival, Channel Four, 2003
Guo Xiaolu
Xiaolu Guo, filmmaker, novelist, essayist. Xiaolu has studied documentary direction at the UK National Film and TV School and screenwriting at Beijing Film Academy. She has also published six books in China. Before turning her talents to directing she worked collaboratively on feature films with a number of Chinese colleagues including Wang Xiaoshuai (Beijing Bicycle) and Jin Chen (Love in the Internet Age). Now Guo is working on her first fiction feature film From Hackney to my home town, with funding from UK's Channel Four Television.
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