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Original Film Title: When silence boils
Director’s Name: Shentong Zhang
Writer’s Name: Shentong Zhang
Producer: Shentong Zhang
Country of Origin: China
Country of Filming: China
Language: Chinese
Runtime: 25 minutes 11 seconds
Film Description:
In the private murmurs of his son, he tries to glimpse the collective resonance. In an ordinary family, it is separated by a mysterious noise. The son experiences the abnormality of the father, the breakdown and repair of the family relationship.
“A while ago, death was an event, a sudden appearance… and then, one day, it was no longer an event, but another continuation – a sluggish, unmeaningful, unnarrated, dull, helpless continuation.” – Roland Barthes. The son completes a glimpse into the complex world between the ways in which human wars break and heal in search of the mysterious clues of his father’s grief. Unlike those immediate celebrations, we, as people with memories and emotions, should stay in such grief longer.