Experiencing Interruptions?

Flee

At the beginning of 2020, a major virus swept the world. I rushed to Chengdu to catch a flight back to France before the whole of China was quarantined, so as not to miss my studies. On this trip, I used my phone to record what I saw and heard. And it stayed that way until I went back to Paris and got sick and quarantined.

  • XU KAI
    Director
  • XU KAI
    Writer
  • ZHAO WEI
    Producer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    逃离
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Student
  • Runtime:
    30 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    August 31, 2021
  • Production Budget:
    1,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    France
  • Country of Filming:
    China, France
  • Language:
    Chinese, French
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - University Paris 8
  • Singqpore
    Singapore
    Monthly winner of student film-outstanding achievement award
Director Biography - XU KAI

Studied in cinema at University Paris 8, he works in the fields of film, podcasts, and video installations. He focuses on identity politics, migration, gender and decolonization, particularly the resistance of queerness in Asian community.
He is currently in a year-long writing residency at the Périphérie Center for Documentary Film Creation in Paris.

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Director Statement

This is a very personal documentary film, through my description of my own events and the activities of people around me since the outbreak of the epidemic, to show the organizational structure and state of a society under the epidemic, to get a glimpse of the passive nature of some individual vulnerability, and to discuss the relationship between individual body, virus and life politics.