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Project Film School 4/14/08 : Jia Zhagke’s The World FILMOGRAPHY : JIA ZHANGKE Ciqing shidai (2008) (in production) ... aka The Age of Tattoo (USA: literal English title) Wuyong (2007) ... aka Useless (USA: literal English title) Dong (2006) Sanxia haoren (2006) ... aka Still Life (International: English title) Shijie (2004) ... aka The World (International: English title) Ren xiao yao (2002) (as ZhangKe Jia) ... aka Unknown Pleasures (International: English title) Gong gong chang suo (2001) ...aka Platform (France) Xiao Wu (1997) ... aka Pickpocket (International: English title)
“I've wanted to make this film for a long time. I came up with the idea for the story in 2000, about four years ago. At that time I had just finished my second film, Platform. The reason I conceived of this story is because at that point I had only made films about my hometown in Shaanxi, and yet I'd been living in Beijing for almost a decade, and I wanted to make a film that reflected my impressions of urban life, of Beijing. So I started thinking about making a movie about Beijing. But later the idea for the film changed, to the point where you can't really tell whether it's supposed to take place in Beijing or somewhere else; all that matters is that it's taking place in a large and ancient city. It's a city with a lot of artificial landscapes, and people who've come from somewhere else, from other parts of the country, play a very important role in the film. More specifically, it's about people who work in environments like the World Park: the girls who put on dance shows there every day, doing Spanish and African dances and that sort of thing, and then some security guards, all of them working in the park. Both groups are living in the sealed-off environment of the park. Day after day, they're either performing or patrolling the place. And then they also deal with a huge set of other people, also migrants from somewhere else, who, for example, may have just arrived in the city and come looking for people from their region or village for help finding work. The film is focused on how these groups of people form a community.”
Xiaoshan huijia (1995) - Jia Zhangke
“I've wanted to make this film for a long time. I came up with the idea for the story in 2000, about four years ago. At that time I had just finished my second film, Platform. The reason I conceived of this story is because at that point I had only made films about my hometown in Shaanxi, and yet I'd been living in Beijing for almost a decade, and I wanted to make a film that reflected my impressions of urban life, of Beijing. So I started thinking about making a movie about Beijing. But later the idea for the film changed, to the point where you can't really tell whether it's supposed to take place in Beijing or somewhere else; all that matters is that it's taking place in a large and ancient city. It's a city with a lot of artificial landscapes, and people who've come from somewhere else, from other parts of the country, play a very important role in the film. More specifically, it's about people who work in environments like the World Park: the girls who put on dance shows there every day, doing Spanish and African dances and that sort of thing, and then some security guards, all of them working in the park. Both groups are living in the sealed-off environment of the park. Day after day, they're either performing or patrolling the place. And then they also deal with a huge set of other people, also migrants from somewhere else, who, for example, may have just arrived in the city and come looking for people from their region or village for help finding work. The film is focused on how these groups of people form a community.”
Xiaoshan huijia (1995) - Jia Zhangke
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