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Born in 1972, Huang Weikai is a
Guangzhou-based filmmaker with a degree from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.
He began creating films as a freelance artist in 2002.
Filmography
Floating (2005)
Documentary/ 93min/ Producer/ Photographer/ Editor
Won the Black Pottery Prize and Audience Award at Yunnan Multi Culture Visual
Forum 2005(China)
The 30th Hong Kong International Film Festival
A Vacuum Flask (2004)
Short feature / Photographer/ 30min
Won the Best Screenwriter Prize at Beijing Student Film Festival 2005(China)
Cosplayers (2004)
Experimental/ 8min/ Photographer
2005 Parallel Realities: Asian Art Now, 3th Fukuoka Triennale, Fukuoka, Japan
2005 Cosplayers solo exhibition, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York
San Yuan Li (2003)
Documentary/ 40min/ Photographer
Z.O.U., 50th Venice Biennale
Laden’s Body Could Be Nothing But a Copy (2002)
Short feature/ 23min/ Director/ Photographer/ Editor
The 29th HongKong International Film Festival, Independent Vision of Pearl River
Delta
Director’s Note
When I began
shooting this film, I told myself not to be concerned with what a documentary
“should be like”, or to worry about the meaning of “vérité” or “truth.” Both a
documentary and a feature are films observing different sets of rules. What I
set out to make was a film anyway. A wast majority of people hold that
documentary is monotonous, lengthy and uninteresting, because the cliche of
documentaries ruins the appetite of audience. A young filmmaker is not to
produce a model of a standard documentary but to try to produce a creative piece
of work, even he may risk committing very stupid or naive mistakes.
The most
attractive aspect lies in uncertainty. During the shooting, neither I nor the
people I shot had any idea what would happen next. We seemed to be in a floating
boat, in the vast ocean, accepting the challenges that befell us. But that is
only what the filmmaker felt. The people you shot may ask: “what is the
difference between today and yesterday; why are you still shooting? In front of
the camera, his life is mobilizing and changing. It is even more dramatic than a
feature movie. His songs are also very expressive, so the interviews sometimes
are replaced by performance, which is in fact more capable of expressing his
emotions and delivering the information to target audience and sometimes even
play the role of the narration. |