Set in a quasi-ghost town that once thrived with oil in China's arid northwest, Yumen is a haunting, fragmented tale of hungry souls, restless youth, a wandering artist and a lonely woman, all searching for human connection among the town's crumbling landscape. One part "ruin porn", one part "ghost story”, and entirely shot on 16mm, the film brings together performance art, narrative gesture, and social realism not only to play with convention and defy genre, but also to pay homage to a disappearing life-world and a fading medium.
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Stars: Chen Xuehua, Huang Xiang, Xu Ruotao
Crew: Huang Xiang (Director), J.P. Sniadecki (Director), Xu Ruotao (Director)
Country: China
Language: 普通话
Studio: SEL
Runtime: 65 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Feb 12, 2013
IMDb: 4
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