生之环

Ring of Life

 

单通道高清录像 | Single-Channel HD Video

彩色，有声 | Color, with Sound

3分54秒 | 3’54”

2022

Commissioned by BVLGARI

 

杨圆圆作品

摄影：杨圆圆、郑敏健

剪辑：Leon Yan

声音：赵丛

调色：杜青杰（农贸市场Film Market）

 

A Film by Luka Yuanyuan Yang

Cinematography by: Luka Yuanyuan Yang, Minjian Zheng

Editor: Leon Yan

Sound: Zhao Cong

Color: Qingjie Du (Cinemarket)

 

 

短片《生之环》中，“蛇环”（Ouroboros）的图腾作为万物互联的符号，串联了亦真亦幻的世间万物——真实与虚拟的丛林、人类的指纹与树木的年轮、海浪与人潮。影片自身的结构也是一个环，开头结尾都是睡梦中的脸，可以不断巡回播放。梦的结束亦是梦的开始，人世如梦，似梦似醒。

In the short film “The Ring of Life”, the totem of the “snake ring” (Ouroboros) serves as a symbol of the interconnection of all things, connecting real and imaginary things in the world – forests, human fingerprints, tree rings, ocean waves and crowds… The narrative structure of the film itself is also a loop which can be played continuously, with a girl’s sleeping faces at the beginning and end of the film. The end of one dream is also the beginning of another dream.

 

美国亲戚

American Relative

 

2022，单通道高清影像，26分28秒

杨圆圆作品

摄影：Carlo Nasisse

剪辑：Leon Yan

混音：Stas Gagary

 

《美国亲戚》的故事在旧金山和广东台山两地展开拍摄。在影片的上半段，美国华裔周碧华道出她早逝父亲隐藏多年的秘密。1980年中国大陆改革开放，她和姐妹们第一次来到父亲的故乡，才得知在这里有一家子同父异母的亲戚。在影片的下半段，周碧华的中国亲戚们娓娓道来祖屋的故事。如今，那些蕴含着父辈出海美国谋生的艰辛的祖宅，正在中国的城市化进程中迅速消逝…

 

 

 

2022, single-channel HD video, 26min28sec

A Film by Luka Yuanyuan Yang

Cinematography by: Carlo Nasisse

Editor: Leon Yan

Sound Mixer: Stas Gagary

The story of “American Relative” was filmed in San Francisco and Toisan, Guangdong. In the first half of the film, Chinese-American Pat Chu Nishimoto reveals the secret that her father, who died many years ago, had hidden for long time. In 1980, when mainland China was reforming and opening up, her family came to her father’s hometown Toisan for the first time, and surprisingly discovered that they have a family of half-relatives there. In the second half of the film, her Chinese relatives tell the story of their ancestral house. Today, in the process of urbanization in China, the architecture in Toisan that tells story of hardships of the diaspora Chinese are rapidly  disappearing…

 

勿街粤曲

Cantonese Tunes on Mott Street

 

2022，单通道高清影像，16分28秒

导演/摄影/录音：杨圆圆

剪辑：Leon Yan

混音：Stas Gagary

 

《勿街粤曲》拍摄了三位生活在纽约的粤剧爱好者，他们当中有中国大陆迁来的粤剧世家，有自幼来纽约的香港移民，也有从古巴移居美国的华裔难民。他们在多次漂泊无定的迁移中探寻身份，在粤剧表演中得到栖息。从回望历史，到记录当下，杨圆圆在《中国城佚事》到《勿街粤曲》两件作品中梳理了粤曲文化在海外是如何对离散族群产生跨越代际的影响。

 

2022, single-channel HD video, 16min28sec

Directed / Cinematography / Sound Recording by: Luka Yuanyuan Yang

Editor: Leon Yan

Sound Mixer: Stas Gagary

“Cantonese Tunes on Mott Street” filmed three Cantonese opera lovers living in New York. Shirley, born in Cantonese opera families who immigrated from mainland China; Rosa, Hong Kong immigrant who came to New York since childhood; Wenxiang, Chinese refugee who immigrated to the United States from Cuba. They found their habitat in Cantonese opera performances.

In “Tales of Chinatown”(2019) and “Cantonese Tunes on Mott Street”(2022), Luka Yuanyuan Yang traces the past and now of Cantonese opera fin the American culture and how it has had a cross-generational impact on diaspora Chinese.