Barking 吠

The UCLA International Institute presents the film, "Barking," as part of their 2014 China Onscreen Biennial: Spectrum.

Spectrum
West Coast Premiere

Director/Producer: Geng Yi
Screenwriter: Chen Dan, Geng Yi
Cinematographer: Li Binkai, Lv Wenzhi
Editor: Song Song, Wu Shaowei Sound: Liu Ruiqing
Composer: The Band Pentatonic
Cast: Scavenger Liu and her stray dogs
Quicktime, color, in Mandarin w/ English s/t, 20 min.

In collaboration with investigative reporter Chen Dan, art photographer Geng Yi has coined a fascinating hybrid of vérité document and reconstructed scenes posited at the uncanny interface of man and animal, urban dwelling and garbage. As other filmmakers (Wang Bing, Jia Zhangke, Cong Feng) have explored how the leftovers of socialism turn into ruins, Geng shows how the rejects of post-socialism become trash. Migrant workers and stray dogs uneasily coexist on the giant dumps littering the outskirts of Beijing. Under the dry cold sky of winter, dogs eat garbage, migrant workers live, work and sleep on construction sites or landfills, and men eat dogs. – Bérénice Reynaud

A professional photographer, Geng Yi has taught at the School of City Design at China Central Academy of Fine Arts since 2011. His photographic work has been published in the Chinese National Geography Magazine and exhibited in a variety of art venues in Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Xinjiang, Vienna and Michigan. Barking is his first film as a director.

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