Venue and date for the shorts programme TBC
China, 2026
Directed by
Zhou Zhenyu
Running time
14 minutes
In the director’s hometown, Hengshui, in northern China, a shopping centre that was never completed has been left abandoned. Wild plants grow in the building’s interstices. Local residents have taken over certain spaces, transforming them into leisure areas for pingpong, dance, boxing, etc.
One day, from his window Zhou Zhenyu noticed that a once upright wild tree had tilted over, as if dying on the concrete roof.
Meet the director
Zhou Zhenyu is an artist working in film and video installations. His autobiographical films depict landscapes and people that have been overlooked in the modernisation process of contemporary Chinese society. Both actor and observer of his own work, he explores the relationships between his subjects and himself.
Meet the team
Cinematographer and editor
Zhou Zhenyu
Writers
Wanda Ford, Zhou Zhenyu
Sound design
Xu Mo
Music
Branger
Colour grading and mixing
Clovis Stocchetti
