The Folk-singer in The Chatgroup
HUANG Yuqing • 2018
This film tells a story about an administrator of a Wechat-group, which gathers a lot of folk-singers of the Zhuang people who sings folk songs through Wechat-group on the Internet. The Zhuang people have their Gexu as some places to sing antiphons in tradition, now the form of Gexu have changed. The cellphones take the place of natural spaces for people to sing together.
AWARDS & FESTIVALS
2020 Guangxi Ethnographic Film Festival, China
CAST & CREW
DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT
HUANG Yuqing
Director
Are there any chances for the traditional folk song to spread on the Internet? I want to show the trend of singing folk-song in the wechat-group by recording the story of a folk-singer.