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Oxhide II (Liu Jiayin, 2009)
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Oxhide II (Liu Jiayin, 2009)
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Oxhide (牛皮) dir. Liu Jiayin (刘伽茵). 2005.
Liu Jiayin wrote and directed her debut film Oxhide at the age of 23 while working on her Master's degree in Film at Beijing Film Academy. Capturing the daily life of a working-class family living together in a 50 square meter apartment, Oxhide is notoriously low budget, with Liu's own parents as lead actors. The film is also known for its cinematographic minimalism – it consists of 23 static shots in a single location, the longest of which lasts half an hour. Shot on the narrow screen of a DV camera, some events occur entirely off screen, with only the actor’s voices to fill the scene.
Oxhide was premiered at the 2005 Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI and Caligari Film Award. Oxhide II, a sequel also directed by Liu, premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
Oxhide II (牛皮贰) dir. Liu Jiayin (刘伽茵). 2009.
Independent filmmaker Liu Jiayin (b. 1981) is a Beijing native whose experimental works combine elements of both documentary and narrative storytelling. During her time at the Beijing Film Academy, she directed her first feature film Oxhide (牛皮) that took home two awards at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2005. Its sequel, Oxhide II, spans a length of two hours and is composed of 9 separate shots of her family making jiaozi. She is acknowledged as “the most interesting new Chinese director to emerge since Jia Zhangke,” known for her uniquely intimate camerawork and preferences for a 2.35:1 aspect ratio.
Women in Film Challenge 2023: [50/52] Oxhide, dir. Liu Jiayin (China, 2005)
No matter what, the cow is slaughtered in the end. Then its skin is ripped off, and the leather ends up in our hands. Then we use it to make bags. Painstakingly. We put the bags in our shops. Then we sell them at cut-price. Selling them at such a cheap price makes me feel sorry for the cow.
Daily life in a cramped Beijing apartment takes on epic proportions in this, intimate portrait, with unprecedented access, of a working-class Chinese family.
“The most important Chinese film of the past several years – and one of the most astonishing recent films from any country” – Shelly Kraicer,Cinema-scope
“The most celebrated Chinese debut since Jia Zhang-ke’s Xiao Wu” – Mubarak Ali, The Lumiere Reader
Daily life in an impossibly cramped Beijing apartment takes on epic proportions in this, intimate portrait, with unprecedented access, of a working-class Chinese family.
Boldly transforming documentary into fiction, Liu Jiayin cast her parents and herself as fictionalized versions of themselves. Her father, Liu Zaiping, sells leather bags but is slowly going bankrupt. He argues with his wife, Jia Huifen, and his daughter over methods to boost business in the shop. A cloud of anxiety follows them into sleepless nights shared in the same bed. But through the thousand daily travails of city life, a genuine and deeply moving picture of Chinese familial solidarity emerges from the screen.
With virtually no budget and boundless ingenuity, Liu Jiayin’s eye-opening debut, shot when she was 23 years old, consists of twenty-three static, one-scene shots within her family’s fifty square meter home. Liu keeps her small DV camera in claustrophobic closeness to her subjects, often showing only parts of their bodies as their voices dominate the soundtrack. OXHIDE takes the microscopic physical and emotional details of a family and magnifies them on a widescreen canvas. “Liu takes the film language of “realism” into an entirely new dimension.” (Tony Rayns,Vancouver International Film Festival).
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