Chengzi_1 2023

Chen Ziyi, a small-town girl, came to Shanghai to study makeup and hairdressing. By chance, she was introduced to the self-media industry by an uploader she admired and unexpectedly became popular. On the way to pursue traffic, she encountered conflicts with other uploader who tried to control the traffic and were eventually swallowed up by it.

Into the Box 2024

What did our parents leave behind for us in the boxes they got from their parents? An artist struggles with what he has gotten in the wake of his mother’s death, and a girl forces him to look inside not only the box but himself.

The Love Songs of Tiedan 2012 ( 7)

In his second feature, director/co-writer Hao pays rousing tribute to 'Er-ren-tai', a form of saucy musical performance closely associated with Hao's home region in the north-west near the Mongolian border. This colourfully accessible slice of backwater ethnography follows hapless hero Tiedan (Feng Si) from joyous childhood through to a maturity notable for an eventfully unorthodox love-life. Taking their cue from the Er-ren-tai songs themselves, which express passionate feelings in bursts of hyper-stylised intensity, Hao and his Korean editor Baek Seung Hoon sock over short scenes packed with freewheeling incident and comedy.

Friendship 1959

Mang guo zhi ge 1976

Song of mango