In Public
Director Jia Zhang Ke
Countries China
Duration 32 min
Synopsis
A documentary that synthesizes Jia Zhan-Ke’s usual aesthetic concerns, showing us how different people can live in different places. Somewhere between a suspension of time and dimension, or light and shadow, we are transported through several settings: train stations, bus stops, and karaoke or disco places. Shot in Shanxi, one of the country’s oldest provinces, the spectator shares the same feeling of loneliness with the film’s characters that catch a train or take a bus in a landscape of work, uniforms and silence, while they still wait for a new day to come.
A documentary that synthesizes Jia Zhan-Ke’s usual aesthetic concerns, showing us how different people can live in different places. Somewhere between a suspension of time and dimension, or light and shadow, we are transported through several settings: train stations, bus stops, and karaoke or disco places. Shot in Shanxi, one of the country’s oldest provinces, the spectator shares the same feeling of loneliness with the film’s characters that catch a train or take a bus in a landscape of work, uniforms and silence, while they still wait for a new day to come.