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- Movie: My Village
- Chinese:
- Director: Wei Wang
- Writer:
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- Release Date: 2008
- Runtime: 75 min.
- Language: Mandarin
- Country: China
Plot
A small camera in a remote country village: long shots in which village life passes as in a play. Director Wang Wei feels one of the villagers and cannot do otherwise than film everyday life in such a way that viewers also feel as if they are in the middle of the village.
The titles of Wang Wai's films are My Village 2006, My Village 2007, My Village 2008.... A basic one-chip DV camera which is often placed on a tripod; most of the sequences are comprised of approximately 10-minute takes, portraying the scenes of the village as if they were on the stage of a Beckett theatre. 'I live my life in this village and this is also where I film... It is just the most everyday village possible and the most everyday villagers possible... I film them from among them, for I myself am one of them...' (Wang Wei)-- IFFR
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