Distant

远方

2013 | China | Fiction | 88 min | Color | No dialogue | Trailer

Director & Scriptwriter: Zhengfan Yang | Producer: Zhengfan Yang & Shengze Zhu | Cinematographer & Art Director: Shengze Zhu | Sound Recordist & Re-recording Mixer: Siya Huo

SYNOPSIS

Made up of 13 sections, each comprised of a single long take that tells a story about distance between different time and space, DISTANT focuses on the subtle moments when contemporary Chinese people are suddenly confronted with modernity, finding themselves lost in transition and persisting with their lonely lives in a rapidly industrializing geography, with no control over their destinies or their culture. Without any dialogue, these 13 dramatic, realistic or mysterious scenes are painted to describe today's human condition in an abstract way - its alienation, abandonment and eternal loneliness.