Making its European premiere at Germany’s Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival (IFFMH) this month, the Lantern Films production The High Life was awarded the Rainer Werner Fassbinder Prize or the best unconventionally narrated feature film.
Film scholar John Berra recently interviewed The High Life director Zhao Dayong for Electric Sheep, a UK magazine that takes a look at the less conventional side of cinema.
The High Life opens with a raw contrast of poetics and imprisonment that can be glimpsed throughout the film, as a female inmate in a bleak correction facility reads aloud the verses of Officer Dian Qiu to a table of inmates folding cellophane flowers as part of their forced labor.
My Father’s House explores the booming African community in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou through the turbulent story of an underground church founded by Nigerian missionary Daniel Michael Enyeribe, called by a “vision” to go to China and begin a new life there. Completed in 2011, My Father’s House had its world premiere at … Continue reading
