The Sea, the Bougainvillea, and the Poet Shu Ting
HUA Zhen-Zi
China〡2023〡Doc〡Color〡72 min〡Mandarin
✧2022中國母親影展
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A daughter accompanied her mother to visit her old friends on an island in South China. Subtle emotions that had been long hidden gradually emerged during the trip. As she uncovered them, the daughter chose to record them on her phone.
Director
HUA Zhen-Zi
HUA Zhenyi, born in Anhui in 1999, is a Shanghai-based filmmaker and writer. Her documentary project The Sea, the Bougainvillea, and the Poet Shu Ting was selected for the first LAST Film Editing Residency Program, with Yeo Siew Hua coming onboard as executive producer. Her short film Today, the Forgotten and the Updated, as part of the omnibus film Against the War, in the Name of Cinema was screened at the DMZ International Documentary Film Festival in 2022. Her first feature project Tap Water is in post-production.
剛柔濟，綿綿情，酸鹹甜。機靈帶點小狡黠。好阿！
My mother had two good friends, but they hadn’t seen each other for a long time. In the summer of 2019, I accompanied her to visit them and during the trip I decided to shoot a documentary with my phone impromptu; however, shooting with such humble equipment, I wasn’t taken seriously. In the process of making this documentary, I recreated my mom’s literary world by incorporating excerpts from her novel to present the same space in different eras. This film is dedicated to all the independent women of the previous generation, including my mom, whose sense of independence is more of a survival instinct – as they had no choice and no support from families and marriages but to make a living in this land that was both materially and spiritually barren.
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