18th(2016)
YANG Mingming
Experimental Sex Romance
SYNOPSIS
After graduating from filmmaking school, Ah Ming and Yueyue can find no work, so they decide to make a film of their own lives. While working in a theater, Yueyue falls for the play\'s male lead. The two girls gradually work out the preliminaries of their shooting plan until one day something unexpected happens.
PROGRAM NOTE
Ah-ming and Yue-Yue have graduated from film
school but cannot find a job, so they decide to make
a film out of their own lives. The two take turns holding
the camera and asking each other questions. During
the filmmaking process, they learn that they both are
lovers and sex partners to one married man. The
camera opens up their old wounds and makes new
ones, but at the same time acts as a catalyst for these
to women to speak the truth and reconciles their
relationship. The two end up calling the married man
on the phone in front of the camera and reconciles
him as a \'guy with a small dick\' and form a special
bond and become good friends again. This firstperson
narrating camera allows the audiences to
feel like they are having an intimate and private
conversations with these two protagonists, while also
giving them the sense that they are often attacking
and meddling in these women\'s personal problems,
just like how the people most close to you hurt you
the most. The initial part of the film, featuring shaky
and violent camera movements, is in direct contrast
with the later parts of the film that shows a tranquil,
stable camera movement after the two protagonists
have made up with each other. This film shows the
audience the lifestyle of an aspiring artist and a
woman living in Beijing. [Sunah KIM]
SYNOPSIS
After graduating from filmmaking school, Ah Ming and Yueyue can find no work, so they decide to make a film of their own lives. While working in a theater, Yueyue falls for the play\'s male lead. The two girls gradually work out the preliminaries of their shooting plan until one day something unexpected happens.
PROGRAM NOTE
Ah-ming and Yue-Yue have graduated from film
school but cannot find a job, so they decide to make
a film out of their own lives. The two take turns holding
the camera and asking each other questions. During
the filmmaking process, they learn that they both are
lovers and sex partners to one married man. The
camera opens up their old wounds and makes new
ones, but at the same time acts as a catalyst for these
to women to speak the truth and reconciles their
relationship. The two end up calling the married man
on the phone in front of the camera and reconciles
him as a \'guy with a small dick\' and form a special
bond and become good friends again. This firstperson
narrating camera allows the audiences to
feel like they are having an intimate and private
conversations with these two protagonists, while also
giving them the sense that they are often attacking
and meddling in these women\'s personal problems,
just like how the people most close to you hurt you
the most. The initial part of the film, featuring shaky
and violent camera movements, is in direct contrast
with the later parts of the film that shows a tranquil,
stable camera movement after the two protagonists
have made up with each other. This film shows the
audience the lifestyle of an aspiring artist and a
woman living in Beijing. [Sunah KIM]
YANG MingmingYANG Mingming
YANG Mingming was born in 1987 and graduated from National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts. She directed, photographed, and starred in her debut short, Female Directors, which showed her capacity to adopt subversive creative concepts and photography skills, as well as her ability to seamlessly suture hyper-real performance. It was one of the top ten Chinese independent films in 2012. Female Directors marked a new type of creativity of young directors. The first artistic feature YANG wrote, directed and performed in, Girls Always Happy, was also selected for the Panorama at the 68th Berlinale.