Hangzhou New Cinema | Double-Bill Screening by Frank Fang | UK Premiere

Hangzhou New Cinema

The online  screening of  A Personal Film about My Past 22 Years and abandoned landscapes: prologue by Frank Fang from Hangzhou New Cinema.

A Personal Film about My Past 22 Years 一部关于我过去22年生活的私人电影 | UK PremiereDir. Frank Fang | China | 36 min | Documentary | 2018 | Mandarin | English &amp; Traditional Chinese subtitlesFrank Fang’s seminal film-essay A Personal Film about My Past 22 Years broaches the emotionally wrenching changes in his city. Fang watched this happening as he grew up and he has documented many of the changes: the requisitioning and demolition of entire neighbourhoods, the landscapes of rubble, a ‘graveyard’ of broken bicycles. He even dug out some old home-movie footage shot by western visitors in the 1930s to show what Hangzhou looked like in the old days. Of course Fang’s recordings of the physical changes to the city have a great documentary value, but their interest goes beyond that. Because his own grandmother has dementia and no longer recognises him, he’s been thinking about memories and their erasure. In this respect, some of his work parallels the Japanese director Koreeda Hirokazu’s explorations of the mysteries of brain damage and the inexorable approaches of senility and death, particularly in his early TV work. – Tony Rayns (Asian Film Expert, Film Critic)SynopsisNo matter how deep the memory is, it will become blurred and untraceable with the passage of time. So Fang decided to make this film, he made it as a container of his most important memories to keep them from the fading of time. Photos and videos that Fang shot in his past 22 years, combined with newly shot footage and driven by his narration, this is the personal film about Fang himself, written by life itself.Director's StatementInspired by Jonas Mekas’s films, I developed my hobby in documenting my daily life when I was in college. During the practice, I gradually found the fascinating connection between the shooting materials and the memories. Blurry past memories flooded back to me as I started to collect videos and photos back from my childhood. Thus, I decided to mark a milestone for my graduation from the college. By managing photos and videos I took before as well as the newly shot footages through technical methods, I eventually finished this film as a memoir of my past 22 years.

abandoned landscapes: prologue 2D/3D 遗弃景观: 序章 | UK PremiereDir. Frank Fang | China | 36 min | Documentary | 2017 | No DialogueThis film is available in 2D edition and Anaglyph 3D editionI can particularly recommend the 3-D version of Fang’s Abandoned Landscapes: Prologue for its almost expressionist pictures of large areas reduced to desolation: this is not ‘pure’ documentary but a fully fledged vision of apocalypse and loss, in some ways comparable with Zhao Liang’s Behemoth. – Tony Rayns (Asian Film Expert, Film Critic)SynopsisDue to the massive urban modernization in Hangzhou city, many buildings considered old were demolished or abandoned. These places were left in corners of this city, and abandoned landscapes is an ongoing experimental documentary project about these forgotten places. prologue is a 3D piece, using the leftover 3D materials shot when during Fang’s search of such places.Director&#x27;s BiographyFrank Fang (方天宇) was born in Hangzhou in 1996, he graduated from Communication University of Zhejiang in 2018. He created several photography works and film works, the films Frank made were mostly combinations of experimental cinema and documentary. Frank is currently making an experimental documentary project about the forgotten places in Hangzhou city called “abandoned landscapes”.

NoticeThe films are only available to audiences in the UK. Please do not book if outside the UK, as you will not be able to access the films. Thanks for your understanding.These screenings are part of Shorts Programme: Frank Fang-A Hangzhou Observer. The full note by Tony Rayns will be available in Hangzhou New Cinema social media and the digital brochure. More exclusive content will also be available in the digital brochure and NFTS Screening Room.Click <a href="https://nfts.co.uk/hangzhou-new-cinema" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a> to know more about Hangzhou New Cinema season.Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/hznewcinema" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@HZNewCinema</a>Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/hznewcinema" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@HZNewCinema</a>Facebook Page: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/HZNewCinema" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">@HZNewCinema</a>Digital Brochure: Coming SoonIf you have any further questions, please leave a message/comment on social media or email hangzhounewcinemauk@gmail.com

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