Marking a breakthrough for the Chinese digital filmmaking community, director Zhao Dayong’s Ghost Town (Fei Cheng, 2008) was selected for the 47th New York Film Festival (September 25 – October 11), as the only Chinese entry in the lineup. This low-budget documentary shot on DVCAM has never been shown in any major festival outside China.
The Lantern Films documentary GHOST TOWN, directed by Zhao Dayong, will make its world premiere at the New York Film Festival, which will open on September 25 at New York’s newly renovated Alice Tully Hall. See full details on the festival at The New York Times.
A policeman locks himself and an mélange of willing characters into an iron cage situated in a dim and cavernous warehouse. Conversations haltingly unfold among the characters, until finally the policeman decides to open up and share his dog-eared book of personal poetry with his fellow inmates.
