If you are a documentary director, what do you want to make a documentary about most?

Thursday

April 20 17

Just a bird singing at night. I don't recognize it.

When I came back from spring and walked through the rock pasture,

I stood quietly, and the sky above me was as quiet as the sky in a bucket.

How many years have passed, how many places have lost face, and some people have passed away.

And I stood in the distance, the night was so quiet, I finally decided.

What I miss most is not what will eventually disappear.

It's the silence when birds sing.

Warren

One sign a day.

He was one of the earliest directors in China who used "scene reappearance" to shoot documentaries. 10 years ago, he filmed the Forbidden City, which is famous at home and abroad. He spent four years photographing Dunhuang and six years photographing the Millennium Chinese medicine. His team spent four years and walked tens of thousands of miles, trying the natural environment documentary Snow Leopard for the first time; He made a wish for filming, converted to Buddhism, and was a vegetarian for filming Millennium Bodhi Road for three years. The Bund he shot cost 654.38+03 million yuan, and the total investment in Lower Nanyang exceeded 20 million yuan. He explained the blending and collision of eastern and western cultures with beautiful images, hoping to create an oriental aesthetic way recognized by the world.

This issue of "Follow the Director to Watch Blockbusters" Guest: Zhou Bing.

magnum opus

The Forbidden City | Dunhuang | Millennium Bodhi Road

The Forbidden City in Taipei | When the Louvre meets the Forbidden City | Snow Leopard

Millennium TCM will be released soon.

Director's comment

Zhou Bing:

There is no language of any country or nation to explain it, but pictures and music show the life record on this planet and the thinking of human civilization! I have been in love for many years! I also hope to make such a documentary!

Director recommendation

Heaven and earth Xuan Huang ba la ka

Director: Ron Fricke

Type: documentary

Country of manufacture: USA

Language: English

Release date: 1992-09- 15

Duration: 96 minutes

Brief introduction of film

Who Are We? Where did it come from? Where will it go? These questions are closely related to our survival, but few people can give accurate answers. After 14 months, traveling through 24 countries, director Ron Fricke showed us the most magnificent and gorgeous scenery that nature can have-from ancient times to the present, from apes to humans, from barren deserts to shocking religious activities, from the touch brought by the vast world to the happiness given by babies' simple smiles. We will find that many times, we don't realize this kind of beauty.

The whole film has no lines, and the title Baraka stands for blessing in ancient Islamic language, which is also the original intention of the director to shoot this film, wishing everything that is with us on this blue land.