Your City

Sep 15

Synopsis

Two partners allow viewers inside their telephonic conversation that layers with film and thermal imagery, reflecting the worries and calm of living away from home during a disaster. The film is structured like the life cycle of a typhoon - both an environmental and emotional system that gathers, breaks and dissipates.

From the filmmaker

My memory of Shenzhen is inseparable from typhoons. Every summer, the city braces for storms that sometimes might not arrive. This film takes its structure from the life cycle of a typhoon, as both an environmental and emotional system that gathers, breaks, and dissipates. I started this project when my partner’s visa was expiring. I felt we were sharing the same storm of many others. 16mm and thermal imaging became two ways of seeing: one tangible and physical, the other almost invisible and detached.