Cong Feng

马大夫的诊所

Cong Feng

"Huangyangchuan, Gansu province, China. It's an arid mountain area with poor roads. Ma Bingcheng is well-respected local doctor, so many patients (most of them farmers) come to see him every day. In his small clinic, people chat with each other about their lives, local conditions, or the people they know. The clinic seems to open up like a microcosm, the information and experiences of different people intertwine, revealing the conditions of typical Chinese farmers, and the typical fates of both young and old--"

有毛的房间

Cong Feng

A documentary about houses in rural Gansu decorated with portraits of Mao Zedong. More importantly: a documentary about the people who dwell within them.

地层2：软流层

Cong Feng

This is a film both about the spectacle and the space, about how the spectacle has caused the mutation of the (physical and phycological) space in which we reside. This film is determined to be the ‘film on space’ of our times, an epic theater, the general observation of the geological structure of this time. I therefore invent or re-invent some terms for my purpose: Archae(now)logy; Ruinology; space bankruptcy; theater of life -- theater of cruelty -- theater of spectacle; the body-film; the New Berlin Wall - Iron Curtain; and “refugees without camps”, ‘the plants”, “the ghosts,” the asthenosphere, dark energy... I have stolen a great amount of found footages/ready materials or already existed films. This “stealing” is exactly the way to get connected with history and the history of film, to construct an “echo film”.

未完成的生活史

Cong Feng

The filmmaker spent years in a Chinese village to record daily life’s every detail. He drank many a glass with the villagers and observed them for so long that he started to recognize their repeating patterns of behavior. That is why there is no end to this tale.

地层1：来客

Cong Feng

Fan Yuansheng, Tong Dazhuang

One night, two men meet in an abandoned building, and share their memories about early lives in their hometowns. They leave this building and continue to roam in the night, then they find themselves return back to the abandoned building: it looks more unfamiliar now, then it collapse down, then it's gone. They leave this place and pass by more ruins and finally reach to the edge of the city and arrive at a hill which is constructed by piled-up construction waste. On the top of the hill, they see the railway that leads to their hometown.

不能自拔

Li Hongqi

Hu Lifu, Ma Huan

Eight characters, trapped inside surreal spaces.