Color/215min/DVCAM/2008
Location: Gansu
By: Cong Feng
E-mail: congfeng72#gmail.com
English Subtitles: Cong Feng, Kristian Bisbal Huguet

Festivals and Awards：
Fifth China Documentary Film Festival
Fifth China Independent Film Festival
2008 Cinema Digital Seoul
Mecooon Festival, Shanghai

Program Note:
In the arid mountains of the remote and inaccessible Huangyangchuan, Gansu Province, a simple small countryside clinic welcomes the local sick and injured. Ma Bingcheng is a respected country doctor. Thanks to his good medical skills, day after day his waiting room is filled with patients wanting to consult him or get a prescription. His cramped country clinic is an open space where information and personal experiences intertwine, offering the audience a rare dissecting view of the lives and living conditions of the local farmers.

Director:
Two parallel spaces exit in this small clinic: a space for healing physical pain and a space for communication, for expressing and sharing psychological suffering. Many physical ills of the elderly are linked to the many upheavals in China’s history, while the younger generation’s are often caused by the hard labor they must perform as migrant workers. I see something common in both the elder and younger generation's fates.
Many people would come to the clinic. They came and went, leaving their faces, voices and experiences for my camera. I grasped the opportunity to record them as they consulted the doctor. Dr. Ma not only filled the role of physician, he also played host to the “show” taking place around him. He doesn’t fill the leading role, but he is the pivot around which the film revolves. The film begins with him and ends with him.

Cong Feng (b.1972. Chengde, Hebei)
Cong Feng spent five years at the National Satellite Meteorology Center of China before turning to more artistic pursuits in 2002, taking up an editorial position at the International Herald Leader, publishing a collection of poems entitled Invisible Train and exhibiting several of his photographs in the New Chinese Photography section of the Pingyao International Photography Festival. Since then, he has published a long poem entitled Masmediacspoeshitry (Subjam Studio, 2006) and taken up documentary film, a field he has been exploring since 2005.

Filmography：
Faith (“Xinya”)
Remote Control (“Te yaokong de ren”)
Doctor Ma’s Country Clinic (“Ma daifu de zhensuo”)