Wandering Mind

Wandering Mind

Hoby Zhang • 2014

Duration: 00:13:35
Language: Cantonese
Subtitles: Chinese, English
Country/Region: Mainland China

This is the second time these two women met. The first time was in white-collar lady Yellow’s house, when her husband fell down and died in front of them. After one week, Yellow invited her husband’s affair lover (Lu, a bass player in an underground band) to a café, and asked how they got together this past year.

AWARDS & FESTIVALS

2014 Beijing Independent Film Festival, China2016 Chongqing Youth Film Festival, China

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

Hoby Zhang

Hoby Zhang

Director

Urban life is mostly maintained by human relationships, rather than nature orders. I am interested in the panorama of faces and behaviors in urban life. Emotion, especially woman’s emotion, is a clear thread that is closest to an individual’s mental life. Women’s states of minds that are revealed after varied emotional struggles are great starting points, which lead me into the twisted and repressed mental lives that people have in modern metropolitans. Women’s emotions are extremely nuanced and sensitive, so much so that every small change in life, every towel that falls to the floor can cause women’s changes of mood. As if urban thermometers, these emotional hints are so subtle that I have to use filmmaking as a medium to get closer to their own emotional system. By using our camera to care about them, we are also caring our own city, our own life.

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