Peng Tao
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"Never Mind" Independent Film Screening VOL.10: Little Moth
Director: Peng Tao
99mins/2007
Language: Chinese and English Subtitles
Synopsis
Bought for 1,000 yuans, 11-year old Xiao E’zi (“Little Moth”) can’t walk, but her new “parents,” Luo Jiang and his wife Guibua, have a use for her, as they’re trying their luck at a new trade: begging in the street. Begging is a trade like another – with its rules, its territories, its rackets – and this is what the artificial family formed by Luo, Guibua and Xiao E’zi– do for a living. Long inured to her fate, Xiao E’zi is eventually persuaded to escape after befriending one-armed XIAO Chun, who's also a hapless participant in the "business"...
Director Statement
I want to exhibit in this film the unique living status of people living at the foot of the Chinese social ladder. So I focus on a special marginalized group—beggars, to show their special quality distinguished from others.
I use a simple and natural style to reflect the reality, a compact manner of narration and non-professional and instinctive actors, which strengthen the realism of the film.
Luo, Guihua and Xiao’e zi formed a special family to earn a living. The meaning of ‘survive’ extends. It’s a vicious circle of ‘family and money’ and they were drawn into the whirlpool hopelessly and miserably. It seems that they are fated to continue struggling perplexedly in one cycle after another until the surviving problem thoroughly solved.
In modern society, the utmost possession of money is of primary importance to modern people. During this course, people discard dignity, rights and basic humanity. They squeeze and accumulate money cruelly and greedily in a state of extreme disorder.
However, the faint expectation isn’t dashed by the cruel reality, and the gleam of humanity and hope isn’t obscured by the heavy burden of life.
Director’s film-biography
Peng Tao, graduated from Beijing Film Academy in 2004. His first feature film “Little Moth” (2007) on which he worked as producer, scriptwriter and director, has been screened in more than 50 international film festivals and received 13 international awards, including the NETPAC Award at 60th Locarno International Film Festival, “Golden Pyramid Award” at 31st Cairo International Film Festival (International Competition for Feature Digital Films), etc. His second feature “Floating In Memory” (2009), developed with the assistance of the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program and produced with financial support of the Hubert Bals Fund, was screened in VPRO Tiger Awards Competition in 2009 Rotterdam International Film Festival.
彭涛
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导演：彭涛
99mins/2007
语言：中英文字幕
故事梗概
骆江和桂花夫妇买了一个名叫小蛾子的十一岁女孩，在街上乞讨为他们赚钱。小蛾子患了血蝉疮，腿不能走路。他们在乞讨的路上遇到了一个叫老杨的人，老杨带着一个名叫杨小春的，没有一条胳臂的男孩乞讨。深夜，为了摆脱他们的控制，小春背着小蛾子逃了出来……
导演阐述
我想在这部片中展现一种独特的中国底层社会生活的状态。我将镜头对准了游离于社会边缘的特殊人群,乞讨者，采用朴素的纪实方式、紧凑的故事、非职业的本色演出，来加强他的真实性,从而再现出一群被社会遗忘在某些角落和被生活扭曲的异化人群和他们特殊的生存状态。
为了生存骆江，桂花，小娥子组成了一个特殊的家庭。在这个家庭中，生存的含义被扩大化了。它是在“家庭——金钱”的怪圈中不能自拔而只能持续着痛苦的行为。
在现代生活中，对金钱的占有成为了现代人的首要行为。人们抛弃了尊严、权利和基本的人性，在一种无序的境况下为占有金钱而进行着残忍的榨取积累。但是，残酷的现实并没有打破微弱的幻想，生存的重担也没有掩盖人性的光芒和希望。
导演简介
彭韬，毕业于北京电影学院文学系，获文学学士学位。2003年拍摄短片《冬天里的故事》获北京大学生电影节优秀短片奖。2004年拍摄35MM短片《再见童年》获北京电影学院金字奖一等奖。
2007年拍摄长片《血蝉》，在60多个国际电影节参赛及展映，并荣获：
第60届洛迦诺国际电影节“亚洲电影促进联盟奖（NETPAC）”
第31届开罗国际电影节长篇数码国际竞赛单元金字塔金奖
第32届香港国际电影节数码竞赛单元银奖
第18届挪威特罗姆瑟国际电影节竞赛单元“挪威和平电影奖”
第25届耶路撒冷国际电影节数码竞赛单元“自由精神奖”
2008年罗马尼亚布加勒斯特国际电影节国际竞赛单元最佳影片、最佳导演、最佳处女作、评审团影评人奖
2008年韩国首尔数字电影节竞赛单元“白变色龙奖”
2008年第五届中国独立影像年度展竞赛单元最高奖
2008年布里斯本电影节“信仰交流”特别表扬
2007年亚太影展“导演成就奖”提名奖
2008年亚洲电影大奖“最佳编剧”提名