Blue and Green

Blue and Green

Xu Yi • 2024

Duration: 00:11:53
Language: Shanghainese, Mandarin
Subtitles: Chinese, English
Country/Region: Mainland China

The girl returns to her hometown, the village of CONFUSE, to sign a demolition agreement. After an overnight stay without any water or electricity, mysterious liquid which is blue and green accidentally drops on her. From then on, she wanders to the edge of the illusionary realm, to the past lives of this land.

AWARDS & FESTIVALS

2024 World Nomadic Shorts Film Week, China2024 Flickers’s Rhode Island International Film Festival, USA

CAST & CREW

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

Xu Yi

Xu Yi

Director

As the oldest bacteria dating back 3.5 billion years, cyanobacteria, a true ancestor of the Anthropocene, “converses” with the girl in an otherworldly and fantastical way, evoking her memories of her grandmother and some fragmented scenes that do not belong to her but to this land. In the ending, the cyanobacteria goes to the four-dimensional world through incineration, while the girl enters the darkness and heads to the bar, pointing to the author’s divergent creation based on the “Klein bottle” - “All things die, and after death, they are reborn.”

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