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For ten days, in a city in the far west of China, a young Chinese actor and a Belgian filmmaker embark on a relationship that blurs the line between fictional performance and documented reality. The protagonists, played by Jin Jing and Matthias Delvaux, go on a hunt for intimacy in a city that is unfamiliar to them both

Hangzhou-based director Xinyuan Zheng Lu presents A White Butterfly on a Bus like a fragmented memory. The audience are only invited to witness partial events from the characters’ lives and form a narrative from Zheng Lu’s use of static, observational shots and suffocating handheld close-ups.

The up-and-coming director made this project as part of First International Film Festival’s Training Camp program, which is designed to cultivate a new generation of directors.

A White Butterfly on a Bus was screened at Beijing International Short Film Festival and First International Film Festival Xining in 2018. Aside from film, Zheng Lu has experimented in other art forms that explore the boundaries of visual media.

A White Butterfly on a Bus is part of China Wave, our month-long special program of films profiling a new era of Chinese creative expression that is rewriting the rules on conventional art, filmmaking, music and performance

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It’s winter and 22-year-old Muzi has returned to her home town of Hangzhou for a visit, a new year is around the corner. Her parents are long since separated, her father has a wife and young daughter and her mother is dating, though the old family apartment is still furnished as was. Muzi befriends an older bar owner and her university boyfriend comes looking for her, although no relationships here are straightforward. It takes time to work out how everyone connects to Muzi anyway, there are no explanations or introductions and one scene can shift into another without warning, creating ellipses along the way; it’s less about telling a story than capturing a mood, the same sense of melancholy stasis that settles even over the sudden outbursts of feeling. Yet the camera is always active, eagerly seeking out unusual perspectives and subjective impressions: the damp rock in the vast underground cavern, the lights in the winding corridor of the karaoke bar, the mist that forms by the river at night, the texture of pubic hair in bathwater. In black and white, the urban spaces seem even emptier; when the black and white is inverted, the city looks like a far-of planet and maybe that’s the point. “Every time I come back, it’s more different than before.”

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Language(s):Mandarin, English, Japanese, Flemish
Subtitles:English

The post Xinyuan Zheng Lu – Ta fang jian li de yun AKA The Cloud in Her Room (2020) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

It’s winter and 22-year-old Muzi has returned to her home town of Hangzhou for a visit, a new year is around the corner. Her parents are long since separated, her father has a wife and young daughter and her mother is dating, though the old family apartment is still furnished as was. Muzi befriends an older bar owner and her university boyfriend comes looking for her, although no relationships here are straightforward. It takes time to work out how everyone connects to Muzi anyway, there are no explanations or introductions and one scene can shift into another without warning, creating ellipses along the way; it’s less about telling a story than capturing a mood, the same sense of melancholy stasis that settles even over the sudden outbursts of feeling. Yet the camera is always active, eagerly seeking out unusual perspectives and subjective impressions: the damp rock in the vast underground cavern, the lights in the winding corridor of the karaoke bar, the mist that forms by the river at night, the texture of pubic hair in bathwater. In black and white, the urban spaces seem even emptier; when the black and white is inverted, the city looks like a far-of planet and maybe that’s the point. “Every time I come back, it’s more different than before.” (James Lattimer)

“I want to dissolve the boundaries of factual reality, fantasies and dreams. In many films that are shot in colour, when there’s a flashback or a dream it’s shown in black-and-white. Here, everything is in black-and-white, and you really have to judge based on the content itself.”
(Zheng Lu Xinyuan)

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Language:Mandarin, English, Japanese, Flemish
Subtitles:English, Spanish (muxed)

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