刘广隶
  • Guangli Liu
  • Guangli Liu
  刘广隶
 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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Festivals and Exhibitions:
Awards:
Mǎo International Film Week, Guangzhou, China, 2021
Tokyo Lift-off Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan, 2020
Beijing International short films festival, Beijing, China, 2020
It's all true International Documentary Film Festival, São Paulo, Brazil, 2020
22nd Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2020
Panorama 21, collective exhibition, Tourcoing, France, 2019
Special mention, Beijing International short films festival, Beijing, China
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Photo: Wei Fang, Hao Liu, Yunyi Zhu