If you set out, you will arrive

Today, when I was reading Liangzi’s interview, I accidentally came across director Gu Tao.

Gu Tao, born in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in 1970, graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Inner Mongolia Art Institute and is a famous documentary director and photographer in mainland China.

Gu Tao in the video has long, rough shawl hair, a peaked cap, a bronze face, and narrowed eyes.

When he conducts interviews like this, he is a bit overkill. The platform is small but the celebrity position is large. He seemed very relaxed, did not play esoteric artistic jokes, and spoke truthfully. One sentence left a deep impression on me.

Gu Tao said that young people should remember the words of Genghis Khan: If you set out, you will arrive.

He suggested that young people should do what they like under the current conditions and start immediately. Don't say "I'll do it if I have the conditions", "I'll do it when I have money", or "I'll do it when the children are older"...

He himself once filmed a movie To record the film about China’s green train, he did not wait for venture capital, but took his mobile phone and took 4 trains with only 1,000 yuan.

"Trains in China are so cheap. The further north you go, the cheaper they get. A ticket costs 50 yuan for 1,000 kilometers."

Gu Tao said, as long as you have the courage to hit the road, no matter you are Whether you drive, ride a bike or walk, sooner or later, you will reach your ideal city.

Starting in 2003, Mr. Gu Tao used a borrowed DV to record the disappearing national culture and filmed the Ewenki trilogy: "Aoluguya·Aoluguya" and "Hugo's" "Holiday" and "Yandahan".

"Aoluguya·Aoluguya", as the first documentary, won the top ten of the 5th China Independent Video Annual Exhibition; "Hugo's Holiday" won the "Asian New Wave" at Japan's Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival The highest awards in the unit - Ogawa Shinsuke Award and Asian Television Award for Best Documentary Award. "Yandahan" won the Jury Award at the 38th Hong Kong International Film Festival Documentary Competition and was nominated for Best Documentary at the 51st Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival Golden Horse Awards.

From the initial unconscious shooting of hunters to the final formation of themes and the creation of the "Ewenki Trilogy", Gu Tao used his boundless sensitivity and unrestricted self-reflection to form a An unselfish and flesh-and-blood history of the demise of hunting culture.

As an artist, he used his gentle understanding and unmodified northern emotions to sincerely and intensely record the belief of a northern ethnic minority in nature and the changes of this ethnic group in the times. collective loss.

Industrial civilization has brought about a modern world. The jungle culture of the northern ethnic groups has been caught off guard by the wheel of the times, and is in a state of complete disarray.

The domestication of traditional culture by urban modernization ranges from confiscating shotguns to ordering people to stop drinking. Gu Tao recorded all these details with images, tenderly, sincerely, and coldly.

Just 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 here.

Gu Tao said: "I am convinced that even if I record the most daily life in the most calm way, it will be a basis for exploring the details of the past nation in the present history in the future." ?

If you set out, you will arrive, and Gu Tao is already on the way.