Sanxia Haoren (Still Life) 2006
Sanxia Haoren (Still Life) 2006
HD, TRANSFERRED TO DIGIBETA, 1.85:1, COLOUR, SOUND, 108 MINUTES, CHINA, MANDARIN/SICHUAN DIALECT (ENGLISH SUBTITLES) / PRODUCERS: XU PENGLE, WANG TIANYUN AND ZHU JIONG / SCRIPT: JIA ZHANGKE, SUN JIANMIN AND GUAN NA / CINEMATOGRAPHER: KONG JIN-LEI / EDITOR: YU LIK-WAI / SOUND LIM GIONG / CAST: ZHAO TAO, HAN SANMING, WANG HONGWEI, LI ZHUBIN, XIANG HAIYU, ZHOU LIN AND MA LIZHEN / PRODUCTION CO: XSTREAM PICTURES, SHANGHAI FILM GROUP / PRINT SOURCE/RIGHTS: COURTESY THE ARTIST AND MEMENTO FILMS INTERNATIONAL
Jia is regarded as a leading figure of the ‘Sixth Generation’ of Chinese film directors, a generation marked by the adoption of digital video to create quickly and cheaply made works. Jia’s early underground work focused on stories from his home province, while later fictional films and observational documentaries have garnered state support. In Still Life, which won a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2007, the 2000-year-old town of Fengjie is about to be submerged as part of the Three Gorges Dam Project. As Jason Sanders notes, the characters in the film ‘all pass through a landscape literally marked “OK for Demolition”’ (‘unknown pleasures: the films of Jia Zhangke’, <http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/film/FN17127>, accessed 10/2/09). In Public, Jia’s first film to be shot on digital was commissioned for the 2001 Jeonju International Film Festival, Korea. Set in the city of Datong, a once prosperous mining town, the work observes its residents as a microcosm for China.
Contact: Film screened as part of Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation exhibition only
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