Apocalypse. Two starving kids find a dead body in the ruins…
Notes from Bela Tarr during 2017 FIRST training camp
“They asked me to choose a ‘best student’ from these participants. But I don’t like the word. If I have to pick one, I want to give him [Bo HU] the award. He’s the bravest, enough to depict the end of the world and create a new aesthetic form within such a limited period of time. He is very talented. A warm and sensible person.”
Year: 2017
Country: China
Runtime: 16 min
Color: Black & White
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: English
Born in 1988 in China, Hu Bo graduated from Beijing Film Academy in 2014 with a B.F.A. degree in directing. His short film Distant Father (2014) won Best Director at Golden Koala Chinese Film Festival, and Night Runner (2014) was selected by Taipei Golden Horse Film Academy. His debut feature An Elephant Sitting Still, which was then still in progress, was selected by the FIRST International Film Festival Financing Forum in 2016. In the following year, Hu Bo participated in FIRST Training Camp under the supervision of Béla Tarr, where he completed the short film Man in the Well. He has also written two novels Huge Crack and Bullfrog, both published in 2017.
Hu Bo took his own life soon after finishing An Elephant Sitting Still.
CREW
Director: Hu Bo
Screenwriter: Hu Bo
Editor: Hu Bo
Supervised by: Béla Tarr
Director of Photography: Yihan GAO
Production designer: Yihan GAO
Line producer: Yihan GAO
Assistant director: Boming JIANG
Assistant DOP: Kaikai MING
Gaffer: Zixin WANG, Ziqiang LIU
Production Assistants: Chunwen LI, Jingjing XIONG
CAST
Xiaoqian ZHANG
Yiyi QU
Tieguang GAO
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Locarno Film Festival
Toronto International Film Festival
New York Film Festival
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival
South Taiwan Film Festival
SPOT-Huashan
Kaohsiung Film Archive
