In Gutai, Wenhua Shi returns to the locations of his childhood in Wuhan and, with the encyclopaedic intensity of a collector, catalogues their textural qualities, the way they look at certain times of day, on 16mm film using in-camera edits; named after the Japanese Gutai movement (in Chinese ‘gu tai’ translates to ‘body tool’), Shi’s collected images speak to the bodily and immediate, a way of navigating, knowing and remembering place.
Release Date | May 3, 2020 | |
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Status | Released | |
Original Title | Gutai | |
Runtime | 6min | |
Budget | — | |
Revenue | — | |
Language | Mandarin | |
Original Language | Chinese | |
Production Countries | China | |
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