
Cotton is the clouds in the sky
ZHANG Huancai •
Around the year 2000, two million cotton pickers traveled to Xinjiang each year like migratory birds. With curiosity, I joined them, journeying thousands of miles to the vast, beautiful land. Amid hardship and laughter in the cotton fields, this film recalls my memory as one of them.
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DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

ZHANG Huancai
Director
Zhang Huancai, a farmer’s image enthusiast, specializes in the memory of village agriculture and labor. It is the first time to pick cotton in Xinjiang. I am in the same surprise as my brothers and sisters from farmers all over the country. But what surprised me was the mosquitoes in Xinjiang cotton fields, they were too hospitable and hospitable! I once wrote a subtitle for a documentary titled “Mosquito Celebrating the New Year”. Why? Because when the migrant workers did not enter Xinjiang, they were in famine. When a large number of migrant workers from various regions entered Xinjiang, they happily had blood to absorb, just like Chinese people celebrating the Chinese New Year.