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Antimony Capital News
DCP, 21mins27s, 2019 Lengshuijiang, a small city in the heart of Hunan Province, was established since its “Xikuangshan mine” contains the world's largest deposit of antimony and was once known as "the antimony capital of the world.” During the two world wars, this isolated land in the middle of the mountains exported nearly 80 percent of the world's antimony products. Antimony Capital News was originally a documentary news broadcast by the local television station in Lengshuijiang. In this film, some of the original footage from early days of the program is intertwined with the footage depicting the film set of the documentary The Local Records of China - The Chapter of Lengshuijiang, attempting to creat a "timeless" narrative. Under a certain specific kind of ideology, the reality and continuity of the genre of "news" no longer exist, leaving behind images that say nothing other than the process of its own birth. Thus, the present moment is always absent. In 2009, Lengshuijiang was officially considered a "resource-depleted" city by the State Council, only forty years after its foundation. Credits: Original script: Guangli LIU 刘广隶 Image: Guangli LIU, Hao LIU, Zhipeng ZHOU 刘广隶，刘颢，周志鹏 Voice: Wei FANG, Haolei WU 方巍，吴浩雷 Editing: Benoit MÉRY, Guangli LIU 刘广隶 Film score composer: Bai LI 李白 Sound Designer: Martin DELZESCAUX Sound Editing: Martin DELZESCAUX, Florent BOURGAIN Artistic accompaniment: Bing WANG 王兵 Technical information: Location : Lengshuijiang, Hunan, China Video Format: Digital cinema (high resolution digital cameras), HD, 16mm DCP: yes - 25 fps Process : Colour Frame format / Image ratio : 4/3=1.33 Sound format / Ratio : Dolby Digital 5.1 Sound version: Dialogues, Voice over Language of the original version: Chinese Subtitle language: French, English Production / Distribution : Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains Responsable du projet : François Bonenfant Chargé de production : Guylaine HUET Contact : Natalia Trebik, Responsable de la diffusion des oeuvres Adresse bureaux : 22, rue du Fresnoy 59200 Tourcoing Tél. : 03 20 28 38 64 / Fax : 03 20 28 38 99 Mail : ntrebik@lefresnoy.net Site : www.lefresnoy.net + www.panorama21.net |
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Photo: Wei Fang, Hao Liu, Yunyi Zhu
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