A event held at PRSC on Tomorrow. The event starts at 13:30.
A group of storytellers sets out from China.
They film snow in the borderlands, the fractures within families, the silence after a plane crash—
and in the blank spaces of reality, they search for other possible worlds.
They gaze at the present, and ask quietly,
What if a young man in rural China received a fountain pen from Italy?
What if a long-departed loved one returned to life?
If love and dreams are a kind of certainty,
then in all the possible worlds imagined by humankind,
they will happen.
These imaginations remind us, again and again:
boundaries are fragile, and often absurd.
Another way of living might already be at hand.
This time, we bring these imaginations to Bristol.
From opposite ends of the world, we reach toward each other—
and breathe the same second of the same world.
1:30pm Screening of feature film: Shards
3:15–3:45 Talk and Discussion
SHARDS
Dir. Yuzhi Jiang | 2024 | 94 min | Narrative Feature
During a winter solstice in the midst of the pandemic, a family comes together.
The grandmother and mother knead dough for dumplings; the grandfather and father fold gold paper into ceremonial ingots. The son weaves between them, carrying his own quiet unrest.
They speak of food, chores, estranged friends, pigeons tearing each other apart, and broken porcelain stitched back together. A dumpling skin breaks. An ingot turns to ash. The mended porcelain becomes ever more fragile.
Shards is a process film. Across a single uninterrupted day, through the repetition of domestic labour, a family fractures, repairs, reconciles, and collapses once more. Like the traditional craft of ceramic mending (锔瓷), the pieces are bound tightly together—broken, and yet whole.
Curator: Jiahui Li, Jingyi Tong
Screening Coordinator: Wanxin wang
Event Producer: Caroline(CJ)
Publicity & Community Outreach: Kye li, Rhiannon Bennett
Visual Design: RePlace Design
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
They film snow in the borderlands, the fractures within families, the silence after a plane crash—
and in the blank spaces of reality, they search for other possible worlds.
They gaze at the present, and ask quietly,
What if a young man in rural China received a fountain pen from Italy?
What if a long-departed loved one returned to life?
If love and dreams are a kind of certainty,
then in all the possible worlds imagined by humankind,
they will happen.
These imaginations remind us, again and again:
boundaries are fragile, and often absurd.
Another way of living might already be at hand.
This time, we bring these imaginations to Bristol.
From opposite ends of the world, we reach toward each other—
and breathe the same second of the same world.
1:30pm Screening of feature film: Shards
3:15–3:45 Talk and Discussion
SHARDS
Dir. Yuzhi Jiang | 2024 | 94 min | Narrative Feature
During a winter solstice in the midst of the pandemic, a family comes together.
The grandmother and mother knead dough for dumplings; the grandfather and father fold gold paper into ceremonial ingots. The son weaves between them, carrying his own quiet unrest.
They speak of food, chores, estranged friends, pigeons tearing each other apart, and broken porcelain stitched back together. A dumpling skin breaks. An ingot turns to ash. The mended porcelain becomes ever more fragile.
Shards is a process film. Across a single uninterrupted day, through the repetition of domestic labour, a family fractures, repairs, reconciles, and collapses once more. Like the traditional craft of ceramic mending (锔瓷), the pieces are bound tightly together—broken, and yet whole.
Curator: Jiahui Li, Jingyi Tong
Screening Coordinator: Wanxin wang
Event Producer: Caroline(CJ)
Publicity & Community Outreach: Kye li, Rhiannon Bennett
Visual Design: RePlace Design
Entry requirements: no age restrictions
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