Words Fly Back to the Black Earth
2025｜16mm to digital ｜19:09min. ｜color&bw/sound
A calling inhabits the blank pages, unfolding a secret writing of hers. The unseen written traces seep from the murmuring land, pushing through fragmented voices to become new forms, beings made material. Framed as a dialogue with my grandmother, this film explores an alternative form of personal writing by Chinese women in political shifts, absent and abundant. The 'blank' becomes an image, carrying a search for agency; of land transformed and of women unheard. By breaking down linguistic structures, the film opens a space for imagining, reading, and performing, allowing for emergence.
从无生有，从静生声。一种栖息在空白纸页上的召唤，展开她未曾宣告的秘密字迹。这些书写的痕迹从低语的大地中渗出，穿透破碎的声音，最终化为具象的存在。以我和我奶奶的对话为框架，本片探索了中国女性在重大政治事件背景下的另类个人写作形式——一种既被省略又富有丰盈感的写作，一种与大地、身体相连的书写。‘留白’本身化作一种图像，承载着对主体性的追溯：被改变的土地和未被听见的女性个人叙事。本片试图通过打破传统的语言结构，为观众开辟一个开放的空间予以想象、阅读与表演。
Through an image–sound experiment imbued with the spirit of labor and the traces of handcraft, the film revisits, translates, and dialogues with women’s private–collective memories. Blankness is both history and space. When writing holds hegemonic power in the construction of history, the film, through revelation and invocation, powerfully brings back another mode of existence and expression. - BISFF Committee
“以充满劳作精神与手工痕迹的图像声音实验，对女性私人-集体记忆进行回溯、翻译与对话。空白是历史，也是空间。当文字在历史书写中占据霸权之时，本片通过显现与感召，有力地使另一种存在与诉说得以回归。 - 北京国际短片联展组委会”