On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the completion of archaeological excavations at the Mawangdui Han Tomb, the documentary "Mawangdui Immortal Time" produced by Mango Bojing and Bojing Culture, under the guidance of the Propaganda Department of the Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China, with special support from the Hunan Museum, has been officially announced. , will be broadcast simultaneously on Hunan Satellite TV and Mango TV at 19:30 every Monday to Thursday from August 19.
In terms of narrative context, the documentary "Mawangdui: Eternal Time" breaks the conventional paradigm of archaeological discovery documentaries in the past. It takes cultural relics and museums as the main creative subjects, treats Hunan Museum as a large studio, and builds a visual system and system around cultural relics and museums. narrative space. Through the ingenious integration of real-life shooting, exquisite paintings and cutting-edge CG special effects, cultural relics are no longer just silent exhibits, but are reborn in the Hunan Museum, a narrative space that combines reality and reality. In the main promotional video, Xin Zhui's coffin, which had been heavily displayed in the past, was magnified by special effects, and the subtle lines were clearly visible; the scene of Xin Zhui's family sitting and having a banquet under the cloud-patterned lacquer cup of "Jun Xing Wine" was shocking. Reappearance; the names of the dishes recorded on the bamboo slips are visually restored into a feast of delicacies... Every detail and every touch of color is delicately presented, outlining the concrete aesthetic world of the Western Han Dynasty.
Bamboo slips, silk fabrics, lacquerware... cultural relics are spread out in this virtual and real space. There are a total of 120,000 words in the silk books unearthed in Mawangdui. The camera peels off the cocoons and selects the key scrolls to present the wisdom and thinking in the "Huang Lao School" ideological trend in the documentary using special effects. From "cultural relics" and "characters" to "country", the documentary "Mawangdui: Immortality of Time" further amplifies the elements of scientific and technological innovation in the aesthetic construction of the image, recreating the life scene of the Bianhou family in Changsha during the Western Han Dynasty. It extends the high-spirited social style and temperament of the early Han Dynasty.
In the main promotional video, the narrative perspective has changed, from gazing at cultural relics in the past to looking at ancient and modern times. "History and reality have formed a wonderful fusion here." As stated in the promotional video, the documentary "Horse" "Wangdui: Immortality of Time" focuses not only on excavation, but also on the construction of museums and the display of cultural relics. The film records the last renovation and expansion of the Hunan Museum led by Arata Isozaki's design. The architectural designer Arata Isozaki drew inspiration from the Mawangdui Han Tombs and Chinese culture and incorporated it into the design of the new Hunan Museum. After the opening of the new Xiangbo Museum, the exhibition design team used new exhibitions to connect a family's life, old age, illness, death, and daily fireworks, and the time and space separated by two thousand years are intertwined and folded. What is worth looking forward to is that this time Jinren is no longer a bystander, but an integral part of the video narrative. The figures of tourists overlap with the light and shadow of the flying prayer flags; the tour guide's interpretation guides people into the ancient and vivid world of the Western Han Dynasty; today's attention to cultural relics and cultural heritage blends with the vigorous Western Han Dynasty spirit led by Huang Lao's thought.
If people once thought that museums were the preservation of frozen fragments of history, then with the integration of culture and technology, the audience will see the flowing tension of history in the documentary "Mawangdui·Immortal Time". In the blink of an eye, people's yearning for a better life and the inheritance of China's excellent traditional culture have truly given immortality to the years.
Xiaoxiang Morning News reporter Zhou Shihao
(Xiaoxiang Morning News)
