In the summer of 2004, the behavior artist Li Wa-ke came to Nanyang from Beijing to help the painter Wang Yongping make the latter's first film. Wang's film is a story enacted by his friends and himself. Such a scenario renders the whole shooting process a reenactment of their life in the past. During the shooting, Li Wa-ke hung out closely with the poet ¡°Baby the Devil King¡± and the painter Ding Defu. They talked about art a lot. "Baby the Devil King" was just acclaimed as a "talented poet" online, but in real life he was only a janitor. During the shooting breaks, he invited Li Wa-ke to visit a poet friend living in another place.

Ding Defu rarely paints now. Instead, he finds himself being pulled apart by responsibilities required by family, school and a lover. He plays himself in the film and sometimes he cannot tell when is living and when is filming.

Li Wa-ke still does behavior art in spare time. Sometimes he does make up on a girl's feet and then wraps them with some shroud cloth cut from a coat for the dead that he wears. Sometimes he stands upside down in the midst of a crowd, naked. He explains that these works express his overall feeling about existence: ennui.

The filming crew is short of funding and management is in a hopeless mess. Shootings takes place in fits and starts. All this throws Wang Yongping in deep anxiety¡­

All these figures continue their "dream walking" in this scorching summer.

2006 Cinema du Reel Grand Prize Award. Paris

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