In this film, we postulate a future history of rocket debris abandonment and recovery, through a “hunt” for abandoned rocket debris in remote areas. The protagonist sets off across valleys and villages, and into the desert in the southwest of China, in a search for the debris of rockets fallen since the 1990s. She may find one, or she may never. She wonders what it would be like to be the first person to see this stone, to hear the rumblings from the sky, to shake by shivering land. Or perhaps it would come quietly, waking no one but alarmed animals. Either way it falls, as if back into a sleep.
In this story, the white stone is the fallen body of a rocket. Shifting our gaze from the sky back to the ground, we reexamine the life span of technologies, marking the terrestrial death of an extraterrestrial object.
Our journey in the remote areas in China, 2021. Photo Credit: Jiani Wang
Credits
导演 Director: 刘昕 Xin LIU
概念 Concept: 刘昕 Xin LIU
制片 Producer: 王佳妮 Wang Jiani
摄影指导 Director of Photography: 张楠 Zhang Nan
摄影 Camera Operator: 沈咪 Shen Mi; 夏昊 Xia Hao
摄影助理 Photography Assistant: 吴澄宇 Wu Chengyu
剪辑 Editor: 姬京璐 Ji Jinglu
调色 Colorist: 姬京璐 Ji Jinglu
编曲 Composer: 施金豆 LANE SHI OTAYONII
混音 Sound Mixer: Zoe Zai
舞蹈编导 Choreographer: 东妮尔 NiNi Dongnier
舞蹈演员 Dancer: 李嘉益 Li Jiayi; 傅语涵 Fu Yuhan
场务 Set Coordinator: 李宏 Li Hong
后期助理 Post-production Assistant: 范泽坤 Fan Zekun