Countdown to the 14th Beijing International Film Festival - 10 days! The "overflow" show is coming soon! At this time, the theme short film "Spring Dawn in the Old Capital" was released to the public. This film is directed by Gu Xiaogang and co-stars Chen Kun, Bai Baihe, Li Gengx

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At this time, the themed short film "Spring Dawn in the Old Capital" was released to the public.

This film is directed by Gu Xiaogang and co-stars Chen Kun, Bai Baihe, Li Gengxi, and Huang Minghao. It tells the story of a pair of former lovers who revisit their hometown and see the past in the present and the present in the past.

Stills of "Spring Dawn in the Old Capital"

"Spring Dawn in the Old Capital" is a surprising continuation of director Gu Xiaogang's "Landscape Movie" image aesthetic project, and his mastery of scene scheduling is also displayed here. This short themed film, which is about 9 minutes long, consists of only two shots: a slow and slow long shot, and finally at the end, the perspective rises into the air, looking down at the greenery and new life in the Summer Palace in a distant manner. Gu Xiaogang's long lens is not a static gaze at a fixed scene. On the contrary, it is a flowing scroll. As the ancients said, it is feasible, foreseeable, habitable and travelable. Slices of time, space, and emotions are constantly flowing, changing, and interacting as he walks through the camera, sometimes in the past and sometimes in the present; sometimes he is excited, sometimes he is sad. What structures this changing slice together are these two keywords: Beijing and movies.

If you watch it on a mobile phone, you may not be able to appreciate all the mysteries in the image. It is recommended that you watch it on a larger screen to have a panoramic view of oriental aesthetics.

Director Gu Xiaogang at the shooting scene

Looking at the sequence of Gu Xiaogang's works, it is not difficult to find such a characteristic: the environment in which the characters are located is equivalent to the status of the characters. The environment is not a background or embellishment, but an independent existence with spiritual qualities that appears and whispers in the film. The same is true for "Spring Dawn in the Old Capital". At the beginning, Kunming Lake, which gathers historical raindrops, smiles quietly in the smoke, silently listening to the play of old friends on the high platform; then, the pair of former lovers stroll and reminisce in the scattered ancient buildings, and the Buddhist Incense Pavilion with high eaves and teeth continues. Holding their footsteps and accommodating their common sorrow. In his youth, Xiaochun was very lively and full of vigor, forming changes in his character's arc. It can also be seen in the dialogue that Beijing has become a benchmark for characters to measure their own lives: the echo jade in the Temple of Heaven is a metaphor for young love; the figure of Jiang Zhaikou is the moment of longing after many years of separation; the Liuyin Park's The new residence symbolizes the changing things and people in Beijing, and it is absolutely present in "Spring Dawn in the Old Capital". With its beauty and heaviness, it witnesses the vicissitudes and mulberry fields in every individual's heart.

Stills of "Spring Dawn in the Old Capital"

Another key word of "Spring Dawn in the Old Capital" is the movie. Movies are a way of meeting and an opportunity for reunion. Even old friends who have been separated by the wind can still be connected with a knowing smile because of the same movie. However, when the men and women in the film recalled the movie back then, there were Rashomon-like contradictory descriptions. Did they each have memory errors? Perhaps, not so. Director Gu Xiaogang uses this difference in viewing experience to easily describe a major feature of the movie: it is like a crystal with millions of edges and facets, and each viewer can obtain the unique and exclusive light refracted by it. When interacting with the light of the film, private memories are generated. As a result, the film has become another cursor that marks the scale of life in addition to urban space.

In "Spring Dawn in the Old Capital", there is also a cute prop: a paper pinwheel rotating in the wind, which is a small ingenious idea used by director Gu Xiaogang to refer to the Beijing International Film Festival (the official logo of the Beijing Film Festival is also a windmill). When the breeze of the Summer Palace flows between the fan blades, the Beijing International Film Festival will arrive as scheduled in 10 days.

Working photos of "Spring Dawn in the Old Capital"

On April 18, this movie spring feast is about to begin. For the people in the film, movies are a way to meet each other; for the Beijing International Film Festival, movies are also letters of invitation flying to all corners of the world

We invite you to be present, and we invite you to travel through light and shadow together, Or, we invite you to rush to the movies and create new memories with someone special in the spring breeze, in the ancient city, in our eternal cinema.