Scene from the film Yumen
Scene from the film Yumen
Scene from the film Yumen

Yumen

Direction
Year 
2013
Country
  • United States
  • China
Runtime
65min 
Audio Tracks 
Subtitles 

Set in the quasi-ghost town of Yumen that once thrived with oil production 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 and a collective past among the town's crumbling landscape. One part "ruin porn", one part ghost story, and shot entirely on 16mm, the film brings together narrative gesture, performance art, and socialist realism into a crude and radiant collage that not only plays with convention and defies genre, but also pays homage to a disappearing life-world and a fading medium.

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