EASA2022 Films

Life after lockdown in Wuhan

A two-chapter film about a young women in Wuhan who goes back to work after having been in lockdown and later travels to visit her family.

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Year Of Production: 2021
Duration: 24 mins
Country of Location: China
Country of Production: The Netherlands
Directors: Willy Sier and Xu Xiaotou

This film is the result of a collaboration between Xu and Willy. Rooted in a long-term ethnographic research, the film is put together from materials filmed on by Xu on her phone in the period after lockdown in Wuhan. First, we see how the factory environment where Xu works has changed after she returns from lockdown. Later, we travel with Xu to her home town to visit her parents.