Poultry is the easiest to be slaughtered and eaten in the food chain. Huang Ji feels that women are also the easiest prey in human society. Stones are like various obstacles that women often encounter in life. After she hits them, they become hard. , the ability to survive has become stronger, which is neither good nor bad, it is just a change.
The movie “Stone Gate” won the “Best Feature Film” award at the 60th Golden Horse Awards. This film, co-directed by Huang Ji and Otsuka Ryuji, tells the story of a female college student in Changsha, Hunan who became pregnant out of wedlock.
Although it was the final grand prize winner, in fact, “Stone Gate” was also an outlier among the five finalists before. This is not because the subject matter is rare, but because the entire film is shot like a family workshop. It not only reflects the industrialization of Taiwanese film and television It’s unimaginable given the circumstances, and may even break the historical record for this award – “Stone Gate” only had a three-person filming crew.
Director Huang Ji serves as producer, art and scene manager; director Otsuka Ryuji serves as photography, lighting, art and sound director; plus an on-site sound recordist. For a few more complicated scenes, there is only one assistant director and two artists to help, but basically there are three people. As for the actors, they are all amateurs; in addition to the amateurs, there are also Huang Ji’s family members.
“Stone Gate” stills.Picture: Online picture
The time of left-behind children in rural areas
Since she was a child, she has watched the elderly people in the village go to great lengths to take photos of their bodies in advance so as to leave a living testimony. The two things of “image” and “existence” have gradually come together in her heart.
The husband-and-wife team Huang Ji and Otsuka have already made three feature films in this way, including “Eggs and Stones” which won the “Golden Tiger Award” at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2012; in 2017 it won the “Special Mention” in the New Generation section of the Berlin Film Festival. “The Bird” won the “Best Art Exploration Award” at the Xining First Youth Film Festival; it was selected for the Venice Day section of the Venice Film Festival in 2022 and won the “Best Feature Film”, “Best Director”, and “Best Director” at the Golden Horse Awards. “Stone Gate” was nominated for four categories: “Best Original Screenplay” and “Best Editing”. The three films together constitute the “Rural Women Trilogy”.
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