Private Project

ELSEWHERE

After receiving the news of her ex-husband’s accidental death, a seemingly unconcerned single middle-aged woman goes ahead with her original plan of going to a resort in Hainan to put an apartment of hers in order and spending a vacation there. However, as time passes, her inner anxiety slowly emerges, and the resort also reveals a
different image of itself...

  • Qiuyao He
    Director
  • Qiuyao He
    Writer
  • Ruiheng FAN
    Producer
  • Dan Liu
    Key Cast
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    海边电影
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Genres:
    Drama, Feminist
  • Runtime:
    20 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    July 31, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    60,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    China
  • Country of Filming:
    China
  • Language:
    Chinese
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    1.85:1
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Beijing Film Academic
Director Biography - Qiuyao He

Chinese young female director and cinematographer，born in 1998. 2017，she was admitted to the Department of Cinematography of Beijing Film Academy.
2019, she directed and edited the film SUMMER BEHIND THE DOOR .
This film won the Best Cinematography Award at the 18th International Student Film and Video Festival of Beijing Film Academy (ISFVF); First Prize at the 2019 Agnès Varda Awards ; Gold Award in the Experimental Image Category at the 13th Cinerent Film Making Competition & Awards; Best Animated Experimental Short Film in the Main Competition section of the 4th New Era Film Festival And selected for competition in the Horizons section of the CineCina Film Festival.
2019, Director of photography for the FIRST International Film Festival training camp short film Otak-Otak.

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Director Statement

In recent years, owning a house in Hainan where you can spend your vacations has become one part of the “good life” sought by some middle- class Chinese people. I was once in Hainan during the off-season: the empty recreational areas and abandoned commercial buildings gave me a strong feeling of “deceptiveness” and “facade” and made me think of the people around me who owned properties there.
A single, independent, middle-aged woman who seems to be doing well realizes at one moment the deceptive nature of her life – the story of such a character in this particular space of Hainan fascinated me and I wanted to present it.
As a Chinese born after 1995, the generation before me went through the process of moving its roots from the county town to the city, and so I was born and raised in an urban area. Nowadays, China’s development is constantly accelerating. As a creator, I want to explore the inner emotional and spiritual plight of those who are now materially fulfilled in China’s cities. This short film is my initial experimentation and exploration of that.
In recent years, owning a house in Hainan where you can spend your vacations has become one part of the “good life” sought by some middle-class Chinese people. I was once in Hainan during the off-season: the empty recreational areas and abandoned commercial buildings gave me a strong feeling of “deceptiveness” and “facade” and made me think of the people around me who owned properties there.
A single, independent, middle-aged woman who seems to be doing well realizes at one moment the deceptive nature of her life – the story of such a character in this particular space of Hainan fascinated me and I wanted to present it.
As a Chinese born after 1995, the generation before me went through the process of moving its roots from the county town to the city, and so I was born and raised in an urban area. Nowadays, China’s development is constantly accelerating. As a creator, I want to explore the inner emotional and spiritual plight of those who are now materially fulfilled in China’s cities. This short film is my initial experimentation and exploration of that.