The Water Will Carry Us

The Water Will Carry Us

Shasha HUANG • 2020

Duration: 00:29:52
Language: WenZhou Dialect
Subtitles: Chinese,English
Country/Region: Mainland China

In a village in southern China, a solitary and old carpenter made a wooden framed mirror by hand, but the person who ordered the mirror had been lost. Therefore, the old carpenter started to look for the person, carrying the mirror. On his way, the changes of villages and towns were reflected in the mirror, indicating something unusual was happening…

AWARDS & FESTIVALS

2020 Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, United States2020 Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

Shasha HUANG

Shasha HUANG

Director

The film uses a unique personified viewpoint and a poetic way to reflect on the reality of changing society and diminishing traditions. In the film, the director utilizes different forms of water and varying angles of reflection from the mirror to develop the story, gradually condensing the emotions of the character and infiltrating the emotions through the idyllic images. The director wishes to use this film as a tribute to the deceased Iranian movie director Abbas Kiarostami.