China News Service, Taiyuan, November 29th. Title: Jia Zhangke's Roadshow Returning to His Hometown tells the story of the changes of the times in 22 years. After China News Service reporter Hu Jian's roadshow in other places, director Jia Zhangke returned to his hometown of Shan

China News Service, Taiyuan, November 29th. Title: Jia Zhangke's road show back home tells the story of the changes of the times in 22 years.

China News Service reporter Hu Jian

After a road show in other places, director Jia Zhangke returned to his hometown of Shanxi to share the movie "Romance" with fellow villagers. "Generation" spanned 22 years of filming.

On the afternoon of the 28th, Jia Zhangke appeared in his hometown of Fenyang, Shanxi Province. After a post-screening and pre-screening exchange, he drove to Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province. From evening to late at night, I visited 4 movie theaters in a row.

"Hello everyone, I am director Jia Zhangke. I brought "The Romance Generation" back to my hometown to meet you. Thank you all." At the road show in Taiyuan, Jia Zhangke greeted the fans in Fenyang dialect as usual. Not only Because he is a native of Shanxi, he is also closely related to the Shanxi elements that cannot be erased in his movies.

On the 29th, Jia Zhangke headed north to Datong to continue his road show. Datong is also the main filming location for the movie "The Romantic Generation". Talking about the origin of "The Romantic Generation", Jia Zhangke said, "My early life was basically in Fenyang and Taiyuan, and Datong is about a few hundred kilometers away from these places. When I first arrived in Datong around 2000, I was attracted by the New Century Attracted by the original scene, I saw many new changes. "

It was also at that time that DV cameras gradually emerged, so Jia Zhangke and a producer began to record the people and things around them. The original idea was to pay tribute to the documentary film "Man with a Camera" directed by Dziga Vertov, so the experimental work was named "Man with a Digital Camera" at that time.

"After two years of filming, I felt that this movie would never end, as if everything had just begun. So I continued filming for many years. Until two years ago, when I was sorting out past materials at home, I suddenly felt that this movie should end. . It took a total of 22 years from filming to production." Jia Zhangke said.

Talking about the reason why the film will be released for a limited time of 22 days, Jia Zhangke hopes to have a "festive feeling", just like the Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, when everyone gets together. And this is more like a performance art that bids farewell to the past years.

In the movie "The Romantic Generation", there are women who gather together to sing, and there are also people shouting for Beijing's successful Olympic bid; there is the scenery of the old city of Fengjie, and there is also the current relationship between artificial intelligence and people... "The Romantic Generation" Like Jia Zhangke's "Old Friends in Mountains and Rivers" and "Children of Rivers and Lakes", they all use time as the axis to describe the fate of characters under the changing times, forming the "Time Trilogy" in Jia Zhangke's movies.

In 2006, the film "The Good Man" directed by Jia Zhangke won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival. In 2015, Jia Zhangke won the "Golden Carriage Award" at the Cannes Film Festival, becoming the first Chinese director to win the award.(End)