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Missed colared-glaze toy

Xuanxuan returns to his old home and accidentally breaks Grandpa's Crispy Colored-glaze Instrument.
When he returns home, he meets his great-uncle, who he has always been afraid of, and the adults have a tit-for-tat argument, while his grandpa, who is the warmest of all, disappears from his home. Xuanxuan and his childhood friend Xiaojie go to the secret base where the other Crispy Colored-glaze Instrument is buried, only to find that his childhood friends have also drifted away. Bitterly, he digs hard by the river, trying to find traces of Grandpa's existence and childhood memories. When he really digs out the Crispy Colored-glaze Instrument and blows it, the short-lived goodness springs to his mind, but then it passes away, and Grandpa on the other side of the river vanishes, and what comes from the other side of the river is a piece of mournful music, which is like a sob... Childhood and hometown memories faintly erased, traces of grandpa's existence is slowly disappearing.

  • Zhenghao Zhang
    Director
  • Zhenghao Zhang
    Writer
  • Ze Liu
    Producer
  • Jin Tao
    1st Assistant Director
  • Yuanmin Zheng
    Director of Cinematographer
  • Xi Zhang
    Potographer
  • Yalin Peng
    Gaffer
  • Dongxin Liu
    Sonud
  • Junjie Cao
    Production Designer
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    16 minutes 26 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    January 1, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    3,500 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    China
  • Country of Filming:
    China
  • Language:
    Chinese
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    17:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Sichuan Film and Television University
Director Biography - Zhenghao Zhang

Zhang Zhenhao, born in 2004, is a 2022 drama, film and television director at Sichuan Film and Television Institute, and his main direction is directing, photography, color grading, and more attention to realistic drama and shooting. Director of "Missed colared-glaze toy" Lighting director of the short film "The night when i feel alone" Shortlisted for the student unit of the British LIFE-OFF Liftoff Film Festival.

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Director Statement

Liuli Gabong is a kind of traditional Chinese toy which is about to be lost; This Crispy Colored-glaze Instrument is a symbol of his old grandpa and his hometown; he and grandpa have one each, and they respond to each other by blowing, which is their tacit understanding with each other;
When XuanXuan left his hometown, he also took the Colored-glaze Instrument with him, as if he had taken away the memories of his hometown;
This time, when he returned to his hometown, his own glazed cluck was broken, his grandpa passed away, his family quarrelled, and his mates were estranged; Xuanxuan had so many words he wanted to tell his grandpa, but when he found the glazed cluck and blew it, he never heard from his grandpa again. ......
The glazed boom symbolises everything about the hometown: family and the traditional side of the hometown. When it breaks, it means that Grandpa, who is the most familiar to him, will never come back, and the houses in the hometown are facing demolition.
The story of Crispy Colored-glaze Instrument focuses on our generation of new century, a group of children who don't often go back to their hometowns. In the context of this fast-changing era, our hometowns have changed so much that we are in a trance, full of strangeness and difficult to adapt to our hometowns.