
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.

Tan Zhuo
Lv Yulai
Wang Yang
Zhang Xinzhong

Huang Ailing
Li Bo

Guo Jiawei
Guo Wanchao

Wang Xudong
Wang Quanxi
Li Yan
Jin Rui
Shao Siyuan
Ji Li
Fu Shaoluan
Wang Xinhua
Tan Weiya
Fan Shuzhen