Xiānghé

A 15 part film featuring scenes from Xianghe, running from the mundane to the surreal: people parade in opera costumes, slaughter pigs in public and dine on the fields; they bury the dead and get married, tickling the bride and groom, everything done without speech. Sitting somewhere between intimate personal reels and detached ethnographic records, the work creates a simultaneous sense of immersion and distance – of the type you might associate with end-of-life flashbacks. Yang gives nostalgia a fantastic, mystical bent, as if to suggest that to revel in memory is a creative act.

Country:

China

Genre:

History,

Romance,

Documentary

Duration:

405 minutes

Year:

2025

Director:

Yang Fudong

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Company:

ShanghART Gallery,

Marian Goodman Gallery,

Xu Wei,

Xu Weida,

8G Studio,

Soundink,

Lynn Lai Studio,

Y-Space

Cast:
Tan Zhuo

Lv Yulai

Wang Yang

Zhang Xinzhong

Huang Ailing

Crew:
Yang Fudong

Director

Yang Fudong

Screenplay

Chen Hongyu

Executive Producer

Zhou Shuhao

Camera Operator

Xie Jinqi

Production Design