B&W/61min/DV/2009
By: Huang Weikai
E-mail: hopecansetyoufree2#hotmail.com
Producer: Li Wenda

Program Note:
The faster Chinese urbanization advances, the stranger peoples’ behavior and moral standards become. The film weaves together over twenty bizarre urban incidents, such as a man who hasn’t received indemnity and is threatening suicide; a lunatic dancing ecstatically in the middle of the street; pigs running wildly on a highway; pedestrians risking their lives to cross a busy street; a fight over counterfeit money; the discovery of a cultural relic on a construction site; a polluted river where government officials go to swim; a determined laborer fishing; an escaped alligator hiding; and many, many more.

Director:
I have been collecting DV footage of various lengths from a dozen filmmakers for two years now. I decided to create a unique urban symphony, even if I ran the risk of being labeled unconventional. Like Walter Ruttmann's Berlin: Symphony of a Great City, Dziga Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera, and Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi, it is not simply a combination of photogenic and scenic images and composed music, but a tapestry interweaving various sounds and events.

Huang Weikai (b.1972. Guangdong)
A graduate of the Chinese Art Department of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Huang Weikai began devoting himself to documentary filmmaking in 2002. His 2005 work Floating was screened as part of the official selection of the 2006 Hong Kong International Film Festival and was awarded the 2005 Black Pottery Award at YUNFEST and the 2006 New Filmmaker Award of the REEL CHINA Documentary Biennial.

Filmography：
Floating (“Piao”)
Disorder (“Xianshi shi guoqu de weilai”)