Xiānghé (2025)

A 15 part film featuring scenes from Xianghe, running from the mundane to the surreal: people parade in opera costumes, slaughter pigs in public and dine on the fields; they bury the dead and get married, tickling the bride and groom, everything done without speech. Sitting somewhere between intimate personal reels and detached ethnographic records, the work creates a simultaneous sense of immersion and distance – of the type you might associate with end-of-life flashbacks. Yang gives nostalgia a fantastic, mystical bent, as if to suggest that to revel in memory is a creative act.

Cast (18)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

Tan Zhuo

L

Lv Yulai

W

Wang Yang

Z

Zhang Xinzhong

Huang Ailing

L

Li Bo

Guo Jiawei

G

Guo Wanchao

Wang Xudong

W

Wang Quanxi

L

Li Yan

J

Jin Rui

S

Shao Siyuan

J

Ji Li

F

Fu Shaoluan

W

Wang Xinhua

T

Tan Weiya

F

Fan Shuzhen

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