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GYRECRAFT Official Selection 2024:
The Place of Revelation and Disappearance

10th Feb 15:00
Screen 2, Genesis Cinema, London, UK
Total Runtime: 115’ minutes


环流精选：
显隐之地

2024年2月10日 15:00 
电影院2，Genesis电影院，伦敦，英国
总时长：115分钟

 The “development” of various media states overflows from the surface of material under the influence of southern light and shadow, and is projected into the imagination of time and space, becoming an image of shadow. The Southern terroir and light and shadow area are where people gather to enjoy cool weather and to stay temporarily. It is also where witty words are exchanged and the intersection area for many dieties and strange objects from the terroir/mythological world. Gyrecraft From 300 submissions, Gyrecraft Film Festival selects 6 films that are very characteristic of the Southeastern coastal region and the cultural customs of the South. Using films as a medium, we strive to build a video connection spanning the time difference between the two harbor cities of London and Xiamen. 

不同媒介状态的“显影”，在南方光影的作用下从物质材料的表面溢出，投射到时空的想象中，成为关于影的影像；南方的风土与光影地带，那里既是人们相聚乘凉、暂且停留、妙语连珠之地，也是风土/神话世界中诸多影神异物的交汇地带。环流影像周从300部影片中，精选出6部极具东南沿海地域和南方文化风土的影片，以电影为媒，在伦敦与厦门两座海港城市之间，建立一条跨越时差的影像连线。


A Family Letter
消失的侨批

    Jiazi Chen, Muyuan Gao,Wenwen Wei, CHN, 11min, 
    Hokkien, English/Chinese subtitles, 2022
    *World Premiere

陈嘉梓 ，中国，11分钟, 潮汕方言、闽南语系，
中英字幕，2022年
*世界首映

As one of the earliest commercial ports on China's coast, Shantou Small Park has witnessed Shantou's history as a "century-old commercial port". The narrative of the grand era of Nanyang, under the port's opening, includes the small park in the entire Pearl River Delta's foreign trade development history. The study of "The Lost Overseas Chinese" takes the small park's spatial field as the research object, tracing the park's 200-year history's rise and fall. Using "Overseas Chinese" and "Going to Nanyang" as narrative clues, it incorporates content from different scales such as era narrative, family and country narrative, and individual narrative, forming a narrative expression with a structure of "Overseas Chinese" (family and memory), "local chronicles" (space and narrative), and "oral" (individual and memory). Through the experience of an opera singer family, the history of a grand era, propelled forward by countless small figures, has been vividly portrayed. If 'going to Nanyang' is a form of adventure and progress, then 'overseas criticism' is to break through the resilience's underlying tenderness. Iron Paper Puppet and Life Experience, Historical Research and Literary Fiction, Film Production and Virtual Production, and the three layers of virtual and real relationships in the works intertwine in the narrative.

汕头小公园作为中国沿海最早一批通商口岸，见证了汕头“百载商埠”的历史。开埠下南洋的大时代叙事将小公园卷入了整个珠三角对外贸易的发展史之中。《消失的侨批》以小公园的空间场域作为研究对象，回溯小公园 200 年历史的兴衰变化，以“侨批”和“下南洋”作为叙事线索，收纳时代叙事、家国叙事、个体叙事等不同尺度的内容，形成以“侨批”（家族与记忆）-“方志”（空间与叙事）-“口述”（个体与回忆）为结构的叙事表达。通过一个唱戏人家族的经验，钩沉出了一个大时代卷着无数小人物向前涌进的历史。如果“下南洋”是一种冒险和进取，而“侨批”则是划开这份坚韧之下的柔情。铁枝偶戏与人生经验、历史考证与文学虚构、电影实拍与虚拟制作，作品中的三层虚实关系在叙事中纠缠在一起。