Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns Blue
Screening Jia Zhangke (Platform, Still Life, Ash is the Purest White) returns to the documentary medium with a story of modern China, seen through the lives and works of four writers.
Jia Zhangke | China | 2020 | Unclassified 15+
Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue, which premiered at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival, is a documentary unlike any other in ourNon Fiction 2021 program. Told across 18 distinct chapters, it speaks to the dual power of art: firstly, as a way for the maker to express their artistry and emotion, and secondly, to observe the deeper effect that art has on a population. The four writers in the film are Ma Feng (b. 1922) who’s story is told by his surviving family members, Jia Pingwa (b. 1952), Yu Hua, (b. 1960) and Liang Hong (b. 1973). Through their personal recollections of life in China and intimate, beautifully shot images of everyday citizens, Jia Zhangke traces a fascinating literary and social history of modern China.
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