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We Went to Wonderland
We Went to Wonderland
Xiaolu Guo
China / UK, 2008
Betacam SP (PAL) (DVcam / Digital Betacam). 76min. Black and White. VOSC
Production: Xiaolu Guo, Philippe Ciompi, perspectivefilms@gmail.com, +44 20 7739 4909
Photography: Xiaolu Guo
Editor: Philippe Ciompi
Screenplay: Xiaolu Guo
Music: Philippe Ciompi
Actors: Xiaolu Guoi, Heying Li
 
Sinopsis:

"The further you go, the less you understand." (Lao Tzu) This visual poem is like an abstract Chinese ink painting, drawing traces of two people's interior life. A Chinese daughter, the director, decides to use digital stills to record her parent's first, and perhaps last, journey to the West. Minimalist, integrating stills and quotes, the film portraits a philosophical journey, through cultural conflicts, relationships, memories of personal histories and shadows of the turmoil of China's past.

 
Bio: Xiaolu Guo has directed the award-wining films The Concrete Revolution (2004) and How Is Your Fish Today? (2007). She has also published several novels, including A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, which has been translated into over twenty languages.
 
Festivals: Festival Internacional de Cinema de Rotterdam (2008), New Directors/New Films MoMa, Nova York (2008) i Festival Internacional de Cinema d'Edinburg (2008).