Set in a quasi-ghost town that once thrived with oil in China's arid northwest, Yumen is a haunting, fragmented tale of hungry souls, restless youth, a wandering artist and a lonely woman, all searching for human connection among the town's crumbling landscape. One part "ruin porn", one part "ghost story”, and entirely shot on 16mm, the film brings together performance art, narrative gesture, and social realism not only to play with convention and defy genre, but also to pay homage to a disappearing life-world and a fading medium.
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- Released
- Production
- SEL
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Top Cast
Chen Xuehua as
Huang Xiang as
Xu Ruotao as
Top Crew
J.P. Sniadecki · Director
Xu Ruotao · Director
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