Yumen
Set in a quasi-ghost town that once thrived with oil in China's arid northwest, Yumen is a haunting, fragmented tale of hungry souls, restless youth, a wandering artist and a lonely woman, all searching for human connection among the town's crumbling landscape. One part "ruin porn", one part "ghost storyā€¯, and entirely shot on 16mm, the film brings together performance art, narrative gesture, and social realism not only to play with convention and defy genre, but also to pay homage to a disappearing life-world and a fading medium.
Release Date
February 12, 2013Runtime
65 minDirected by
Huang Xiang, J.P. Sniadecki, Xu RuotaoLanguage
ChineseBudget
$0Revenue
$0Status
ReleasedCast
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