29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

24. 10.–2. 11. 2025
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A Thousand Year Stage

Daphne Xu / China, United States, Canada / 2020 / 35 min.


synopsis

A Thousand-Year Stage (2020) features local residents and migrant workers in Xiongan New Area, a region in Hebei, China slated to become a megacity, as they await its transformation. The film moves between Baigou Station and the construction site of “Asia’s largest train station”, Xiongan Station.

biography

Daphne Xu (1992) is a Chinese Canadian artist and filmmaker exploring the politics and poetics of place through moving image. With a background in anthropology and city planning, her practice engages observations of the everyday and affective experiences of contested landscapes, particularly in the context of rapid urban change in China. She is currently Film Study Center Fellow at Harvard University and is producing her next film within the Sensory Ethnography Lab.
 

more about film

director: Daphne Xu

contact

Daphne Xu
daphne.y.xu@gmail.com
+18572879296

Film at festival

festival edition:2020
section:Opening Scenes Lab x Visions du Réel
language:Chinese Regional Dialects, Mandarin Chinese
subtitles:French, English
colour:Colour

Info

director:Daphne Xu
original title:千年舞台
country:China, United States, Canada
year:2020
running time:35 min.

Festival partners

Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
Creative Europe Media
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms

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