Xiong Zaixia
2021Geobelief: Lord of the Soil
Xiong Zaixia
Director Xiong Zaixia notes: "A 'she' (commune) is the smallest administrative unit since the Tang Dynasty. She Gong is also known as Soil-Ground or Lord of the Soil. I have found that I captured and edited Soil-Grounds in my video works unconsciously. That made me recall something. So I returned to my hometown Shunde, Guangdong several times to shoot and record over 60 Lords of the Soil in Lunjiao Town’s eastern and western villages. I want to explore how such a traditional Chinese folk belief roots geographically, becomes embedded in one’s memory, and shapes a population’s behavior."
Geobelief: Lord of the Soil
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Xiong Zaixia
I got back to my hometown Yang'e Village in Shunde and shot some landscapes for my future works in the 2019 Spring Festival (Feb. 5th exactly). This video work consists of some footages I shot in the Kanggong Temple and near the Yang'e Food Market. By this simple video work, I want to explore the relationship among the religion, geography, and animals, especially the animals' traces and roles in the domain of beliefs. This video work was selected in the 2019 23rd Wusanto Film Festival in Taiwan. (Wrote by Xiong Zaixia)
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