People's Park
Director Libbie D. Cohn
Countries United States, China
Duration 78 min
Synopsis
People’s Park is a single-shot feature-length documentary in immersive 5.1 digital surround sound that presents a slow passage through a famous urban park in Chengdu, Sichuan Province and depicts the park's vibrant dynamics, waltzing couples, mighty sycamores, and buzzing cicadas. A sensory meditation on cinematic time and space and public interaction in China, People’s Park captures the dozens of moods, rhythms, and pockets of performance coexisting in tight proximity within this rowdy and prismatic social space. A culture of leisure and personal freedom is unveiled.
People’s Park is a single-shot feature-length documentary in immersive 5.1 digital surround sound that presents a slow passage through a famous urban park in Chengdu, Sichuan Province and depicts the park's vibrant dynamics, waltzing couples, mighty sycamores, and buzzing cicadas. A sensory meditation on cinematic time and space and public interaction in China, People’s Park captures the dozens of moods, rhythms, and pockets of performance coexisting in tight proximity within this rowdy and prismatic social space. A culture of leisure and personal freedom is unveiled.