DREAM WALKING

Business: Investment & Production
Category: Documentary
Genre: Art House
Runtime: 86 min
Country: China
Director: WEN Hai

Awards: Jury Prize, Cinéma du Réel

Synopsis

The experiences of four artists over one summer. The painter Wang Yongping plans to create a film and goes back to his hometown after living in Beijing for three years. Other artists gather to help, and the filmmaking begins. Li Wake does handstands whenever and wherever, in the name of behavioral art. The painter Ding Defu was active in the modern art movement of the 1980s, but is now busy teaching and attending to family. The web-based poet Bei Bei has a piddling day job as a security guard. Their feelings toward boundless art and creativity sway in the summer heat and drift amidst their dreams. The film depicts a monochrome world that traverses life and art, intersecting with China’s metamorphosis.