film, 2011, 00:50:10

The film CHINA CONCERTO is an observational essay about images, representations and performances in China's contemporary spectacles. For China, the past two decades since 1989, has been a time of economic boom and social de-politicization. Drive for profit and progress seems to have been dominating social life. However, it is also crucial to be aware that the extensive capitalization is hybridized to retained aspects of communist totalitarianism. Not only on the economic level, in ideologies, influences from the Mao era never really faded away. They conceal themselves under a capitalist mask. The film takes a form of fictional letters about a man's encounters with all the images during his trip in China, narrated by a female voice with an untraceable accent. The focus of the film is images – images in a broader sense, as surfaces of the society. I believe the seemingly most mundane surfaces can possibly provide us a glimmer of re-looking at the basis of the duo-structure of China in the post-Tiananmen era.

 

cinematography: Bo Wang

footage of cemetry shot by: Simin Zhang

editing: Bo Wang

editorial consultant: Grahame Weinbren

scripts: Bo Wang

scripts consultant: Richard Leslie

voice-over: Gabriela Jaime

voice-over recording & mixing: Fashion Beat Team Studio, Madrid, Spain

voices of conversation: Feng Lu, Huafeng Xie

graphic design: Helen Huanwu Zhai