Gu Tao's Photography Collection

Today, when I was writing an interview with Liang Zi, I accidentally brushed the director Gu Tao.

Gu Tao, 1970 was born in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. He graduated from the Painting Department of Inner Mongolia Art College, majoring in oil painting, and is a famous documentary director and photographer in China.

In the video, Gu Tao wears long hair with a rough shawl, a cap, a bronzed face and squinting eyes.

He made such an interview, which was a bit like killing a chicken with a knife. The podium is small and the coffee table is big. He looks relaxed and doesn't play abstruse art, but what he said is true, and one sentence left a deep impression on me.

Gu Tao said that young people should remember Genghis Khan's words: If you start, you will definitely arrive.

He suggested that young people do what they like under the existing conditions and start at once. Don't say "do it if you can", "do it if you have money" or "do it when the children are old" ...

He once made a film about the green leather train in China. He didn't wait for the venture capital, but took four trains with his mobile phone, which only cost 1000 yuan.

"How cheap is the train in China? The farther north, the cheaper it is. 1000 km to 50 yuan. "

Gu Tao said that as long as you have the courage to walk on the road, whether driving, cycling or walking, sooner or later you will definitely reach your ideal city.

Since 2003, Mr. Gu Tao has used the borrowed DV to record the disappearing national culture and filmed the Ewenki trilogy: Aoluguya Aoluguya, Hugo's Holiday and Guadalahan.

As the first documentary, Aoluguya Aoluguya won the top ten in the fifth annual exhibition of independent films in China. Hugo's Holiday won the highest prize in the "Asian New Wave" section of Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival-the Ogawa Shinsuke Prize and the Best Documentary Award of the Asian TV Awards. "Big Man" won the jury prize of the 38th Hong Kong International Film Festival Documentary Competition, and was nominated for the best documentary in the Golden Horse Award of 5 1 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival.

From the unconscious shooting of hunters at first, to the formation of the final theme and the creation of Ewenki trilogy, Gu Tao, with his infinite sensitivity and unlimited self-reflection, formed a history of the disappearance of hunting culture full of selfishness and flesh and blood.

As an artist, with gentle understanding and simple northern feelings, he sincerely and strongly recorded the belief of a northern minority in nature and the collective loss of this nation in the changes of the times.

Industrial civilization has brought the modern world, and the northern national jungle culture has been caught off guard by the wheel of the times, which shows its embarrassment.

The domestication of traditional culture by urban modernization, from collecting shotguns to ordering abstinence, Gu Tao recorded all these details with images, gentle, sincere and indifferent.

Like migratory birds flying south, like thousands of rivers returning to the sea, no one can stop them from leaving, but they can remember that they have been there.

Gu Tao said: "I am convinced that even recording these most daily lives calmly like me will become a basis for exploring the details of the former nationalities in the present history for the future." ?

If you leave, you will arrive. Gu Tao is on his way.