Gu Xiaogang
Directing
Biography
Gu Xiaogang, A native of Fuyang, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, born in Jiangyin City, Jiangsu Province in 1988, graduated from Zhejiang Sci-Tech University in 2012 with a major in fashion design and marketing. He loves painting, film, and other arts. As a junior, he became obsessed with movies and began independent image creation, documentary filming, and advertising, A short story, and then participated in the tenth issue of Li Xianting Film Academy in Songzhuang. His main works include documentaries "Planting Life" and "The Believers". He currently lives in Beijing and studied in the director department of Beijing Film Academy. The planned long-roll film "A Thousand Miles of the East", the first volume of "Spring River Plumbing" was filmed in four seasons in two years, and was selected as the "Critics Week" at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and was selected as the closing film.
Known For
A mother and her son living amid economic turbulence in the beautiful Chinese green tea-farming landscape.
Dwelling by the West Lake
In the Chinese town of Fuyang, four brothers go about their day-to-day lives, their destinies shaped by love and challenges.
Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains
A couple who haven't seen each other for many years revisited their hometown in the early spring of the Summer Palace due to a suddenly discovered love letter. They seemed to see each other in the past, and they also seemed to see the future in the past. In the overlap of time and space, life continues
As Spring Comes Along
A single mother has the idea of restarting her marriage life. During the process of contacting different men around her, she felt confused and did not know where to go. Until the emotions buried in her past memories were awakened, she finally found her own answer.
The First Taste of Loneliness
Old Jia gave up his city life and returned to the countryside with his wife. He abandoned chemical fertilizer to practice natural farming. His philosophy attracted a big group of admirers from the city, whereas local villagers disagreed on his approaches.
Planting for Life
A group of young people having a dinner together, during which they shared their personal experiences and played them out through a game.
For One More Day
The story is about Lao Jia, a farmer on Chongming Island, Shanghai. On this island, he applies natural farming to show his wish and love to the land. Lao Jia calls himself a natural farmer. He left the metropolis Shanghai and his wife LiZi for Chongming Island three year ago. There Lao Jia contracted a farmland of about 25 acres. Without using any fertilizers or chemicals, he believes in his land and tries to plant with an ancient agriculture philosophy of returning the land to nature, which is the so called natural farming. Lao Jia said: “Farming helps people to find back some simple but real things in life, and the farmers’ emotions will in return affect the land and the plants.” Now there are many people who agree with his idea. But the reality is cruel, when Lao Jia described to me his wish to his land, problems keeps cropping up to test his attitude of “re-discovering the love to land”.
Natural Farmer JIA
A commercial commissioned by FIRST film festival and LEXUS company. A side story short of Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains.