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6.6
/10
87 Ratings

YUMEN

玉门

Directed by J.P. Sniadecki, Huang Xiang, Xu Ruotao
United States, China, 2013
Avant-Garde
  • 6565 minutes

Synopsis

Yumen combines ghost stories and “ruin tourism” to form a celluloid psycho-collage of wandering souls seeking connection with one another and a lost collective history among the frozen remnants of the abandoned oil town of Yumen in China’s northwest Gansu province.

Synopsis

Yumen combines ghost stories and “ruin tourism” to form a celluloid psycho-collage of wandering souls seeking connection with one another and a lost collective history among the frozen remnants of the abandoned oil town of Yumen in China’s northwest Gansu province.

Our take

Diving into the ruins of a ghost town, this hauntingly disjointed celluloid collage, shot entirely on 16mm, pays tribute to the dying gasps of a medium. A bold, brilliant collaboration between the Sensory Ethnography Lab (Leviathan) and two Chinese avant-gardists: Xiang Huang and Xu Ruotao.