We Spin Around the Night Consumed by the Fire
- Media type
- Film
我们盘桓在夜色里，被烈火吞噬 · We Spin Around the Night Consumed by the Fire · MOVIE
2021
About this title
Shot on Super 16mm film, We Spin Around the Night Consumed by the Fire examines the area of Yu Garden located in Shanghai Old Town, which is currently undergoing a massive urban renewal. Following a female character dressed in red with a kerosene lamp, the camera captures the unsettling and haunting scene of the empty neighborhood with little lighting after residents were dispatched to the suburb. Meanwhile, the VO narrates the local history of an urban grass-roots uprising that happened nearly two hundred years ago…