Dancing in the City

Director: Fan Jian
Cameramen: Fan Jian, An Tongqing
Editors: Fan Jian, Li Yueyan
Length: 118 mins.
Produced: 2006

Synopsis
An idealist who just wants to speak for Chinese farmers; a young guy from countryside who makes great efforts for entering the urban life; a girl who shuttles between the city and the village; a rebel figure who seems a mixture of money and literature. Flowing the blood of villages in all their bodies, they dance in the city with the tied spirits. They return to their hometowns again and again, and flee from there soon each time. They try and try their best to get out of the chains in their spirits but go back and back to what they are. Where is home? Where is the way to the habitat for the wandering souls? In a forest of reinforced concrete, they go forward in haste, sign in silence.

Fan Jian,  born in 1977 in Ningxia province. Graduated from Journalism College in Wuhan University in 1999; In 2006, finished his M. A. candidate study in Directing Department of BFA. Since 2003 he has been making documentary programs for CCTV, in which Grapes of Wrath won the Chinese Documentary Prize. He tried to make independent documentary also from then on., SARS Reflection(43mins) which was finished in 2003 screened in China-France Culture Interflow Image Exhibition in Leon; Electioneering(93mins) finished in 2004;as a graduating work, Dancing in the City has been selected by IDFA in 2006.