Ning Ying's Personal Works

Director, photographer and editor: Ning Ying

Joint photo interview: Guo Gang

Synopsis of story:

Every August and September, thousands of Sichuan farmers board the westbound train, and after three days and two nights, they travel more than 3,000 kilometers to Xinjiang in the northwest of the motherland. There is endless cotton waiting to be harvested. ......

For most of them, this is the first time to leave their hometown and take the train.

Perhaps this is the first time that we can directly and truly listen to the voices of farmers in poverty-stricken areas in China and tell their own stories for the first time.

Important film festivals attended:

The French Real Film Festival Award, the works recommended by the One World Award in London, England, the Future Film Award of the pesaro International Film Festival in Italy, the Youth Forum of the Berlin International Film Festival, the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival, the London International Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, the Florence People's Film Festival in Italy, the Fribourg International Film Festival in Switzerland, the Hong Kong International Film Festival, the Vienna International Film Festival, and the Jeonju International Film Festival in Korea held exhibitions of director Ning Ying's works. 2003 Israeli Jerusalem International Film Festival, Canadian Vancouver International Film Festival, American HIGHFALLS Film Festival, new york MARGARETHMEAD Film Festival, British Oxford Documentary Film Festival, International Public Television Seminar.

Media comments:

In 2002, the French Real Film Festival Award was unanimously praised and highly praised by the jury: "This is an excellent work with strong expressive force, profound and keen perspective, simple thinking, weighty narrative in the main frame and alternating rhythm. The film immediately puts people into the story and energetic life of the characters, and its content far exceeds the journey of hope shown by the length of the film. "

Lemond, France: "Independent director Ning Ying shows no less talent in the field of documentary than when she directed feature films."

Italian "ILMANIFESTO" (about the Beijing trilogy and Journey of Hope): "Her works have always been an excellent combination of feature films and documentaries, always showing the restless and restless soul of her country ... From this perspective, Ning Ying has (perhaps unintentionally) become the representative of a new generation of directors in China, who are committed to creating" emotions and documentaries ".

Israel's THEJERUSALEMTIMES: "The content and emotion of the film are so moving that the audience is speechless at the end of the film. The author successfully interprets the emotional world of migrant workers in China on the train.

Hong Kong FAREASTERNECONOMICREVIEW: "The concept of Ning Ying's works is simple and brilliant ... The beauty of this documentary is beyond words, and what she presents in the film may be more profound than what she wants to express." An 80-minute feature film in 2000

Screenwriter: Ning Dai Ning Ying

Director and Editor: Ning Ying

Photography: Gao Fei

Art: Weining

Recording: Qin Song Chaojun

Music: Zhu Xiaomin

Synopsis of story:

Dezi is a young taxi driver in Beijing. Just as he drives through the streets every day, he also runs around in his love life: his wife, female migrant workers in Northeast China, female college students and women who take taxis everywhere. They spent a warm summer with Dezi.

With Dezi's taxi, we started a trip across the whole city of Beijing. Dezi has been in a state of movement, and people and things he meets pass by in a hurry. The taxi driver's wandering state between the destination and the woman shows to a great extent that the city of Beijing is struggling to find its true colors between its long-forgotten historical values and the unknown future after opening up.

Director's statement:

"In the past ten years, the city I face-Beijing-has been experiencing dazzling changes.

The first time I often tried to put Beijing on the screen was 1992' s Fun, a comedy about losing tradition. From 65438 to 0995, I focused on the emerging realities and the difficulties I faced in the face of them through never to lose's black humor. In this new work, Everything in a Warm Summer, through the perspective of a young and hurried taxi driver, the profound influence of great changes on people's lives and the confusion spreading among a new generation of young people are expressed in a form similar to rhapsody.

When I look back at these three films, they have already formed a trilogy. Fun ancestors, fathers in never to lose and children in warm summer, the lives of three generations of Beijingers in the late 20th century and 1990s.

Media comments:

200 1 The 3rd1Comments of the Youth Forum of the Berlin International Film Festival when it was specially recommended by the International Art Film Federation: "The film tells the story of a Beijing taxi driver. Through the rich emotional experience of drivers, people can gain insight into all the complexities of this modern city and people's living conditions. The director perfectly combines a specific personal survival experience with the current mental state of this metropolis with superb and delicate expression techniques. "

Peter Goff, American "Boston Phoenix" (commenting on the Beijing trilogy): "China director Ning Ying used Martins Cauchy's lens to make Beijing into new york. With great enthusiasm and unique perspective, she reproduces the metropolis of Beijing and all its subtle details, rhythms, chaos and even tastes ... She dramatizes profound themes and long-standing social contradictions with new realism ... She is one of the most important talented film directors in China. "

LEMONDE Jean Michel Frodon, French newspaper Le Monde: "Sketch the face of this city in a way full of original style and courage."

"Cherrylane Movies" Michael Primont: "In this film, we have experienced the unprecedented rhythm of Peking man's life from the perspective of an ordinary person. I think this observation of Beijing can also be applied to other parts of the world. This is a beautiful, humorous and dazzling film shot by female directors, the most influential man in China. The theme of this film stems from Ning Ying's deep affection for the city where she lives. She explained the city of Beijing in an unprecedented way on the screen. A current taxi driver lives a quasi-Casanova life. In front of the camera, he is slow and sometimes confused about the surrounding phenomena. The passengers he picks up repeatedly every day seem to live on the other side of his life, except when the passengers are women. Sometimes he would stay with them for hours or even days until he was kicked back to his original life. Time and time again, he was deceived, confused, used, and even really loved for a while. "

"METRO-ZINE" urban essence advertisement-Stacie Kent: "This is the story of an ordinary Beijing taxi driver Dezi, which is the story of Beijing itself. Ning Ying's new film "Warm Summer" swept Beijing with a critical and enlightening vision today. All the familiar and unfamiliar realities are so naturally contained in a movie. The film shows and magnifies the details of daily life one by one, and then becomes a symbol of Beijing today. Sometimes these symbols shorten the distance between you and the city and make you feel deja vu. Sometimes these symbols keep you away from the city, make you strange, and make you feel that the city is alienated ... Therefore, these familiar and unfamiliar realities give people a feeling that Beijing is the middle zone between hell and heaven-the memory of the past is disappearing, today's life is noisy and exciting, and its tomorrow is unpredictable. What is this place? This is a question that many Beijingers ask today. Ning Ying's films try to answer this question. It traces the emotional life of Dezi Casanova, and reveals the life in Beijing today through Dezi's wandering eyes and taxis where passengers get on and off. This film reveals all the glories of Beijing that we are familiar with with with unspeakable anxiety ... "1995 102 Minutes Feature Film Writer, Director and Editor: Ning Ying.

Photography: Lei Zhi, Wu Hongwei

Art: Cheng Guangming

Recording: Chao Jun, Wang

Music: Su Cong

Synopsis of story:

In this original police film, the "enemy" is not the usual criminal, but the society itself. The police in Deshengmen are usually bored and sloppy, and sometimes they are as eager to hold guns as their American counterparts on TV. One day in the movie, a mad dog bit a drunk. In order to protect people's safety, police officer Yang Guoli was ordered to remove all the pets in the film. This hard work makes every policeman's heart tense again ... The story is full of fun, and it gradually turns from bizarre to absurd.

Media comments:

French film handbook

"Kafka's absurdity and humor even make people cry ... His tragicomedy style was the tradition of China films in the 1940s. The film is aimed at ordinary people in life, so that they can keep the most vivid faces in front of the camera. "

American Variety Weekly: Wonderful satire on bureaucracy; The fable of the national mechanism towards democracy and market economy. "

The French newspaper LEMONDE "vividly describes the daily life of the Beijing police station."

American VILLAGEVOICE: "Ning Ying's Fun embodies her talent as a director; "never to lose" pushed her to the ranks of top international art film directors. "

Times: "The daily life of Beijing police is absurd, humorous and disturbing."

The NEWYORKTIMES, new york Times: "These policemen on bicycles look very kind, but the director Ning Ying observes them with a very curious eye."

French TV News: "It's amazing that such a brave film was written by a young female director."

SOUTHCHINAMORNINGPOST: "Have fun" was a great success in the international film critics, and "never to lose" once again confirmed her talent. "1992 97-minute feature film

Based on Chen's novel of the same name.

Screenwriter: Ning Dai Ning Ying

Director: Ning Ying

Photography: Xiao Feng, Wu Di

Art: Yang Chanwen

Recording: Chaojun

Editor: Zhou Meiping

Music: Meng Weidong

Synopsis of story:

The old man, the gatekeeper of Beijing Opera Theatre, was not willing to do nothing after retirement, and set up an amateur club for the elderly for other retirees. They had fun in the club, rehearsed ... and even made noise.

Media comments:

New york Times, new york Times: "Ning Ying directs serious comedy."

French Lemond: "A humorous, weighty and far-reaching fable"

American Variety Weekly: "Beneath the surface of this comedy, it contains the author's deep thinking on the bureaucratic thought prevailing in capitalist China today."

Economist, British economist: "This film gives an undisguised praise to the positive attitude of' having fun'."

South China Morning Post: "This is a masterpiece with far-reaching significance and a milestone in the history of China film."