The Night Before The Gunfire Sounded
It tells the story of people trying to fill themselves in various symbols in a large square between reality and illusion in order to find evidence of individual existence.
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Yixuan JiangDirector
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Xingyu MaDirector
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Yixuan JiangWriter
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Xingyu MaWriter
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Project Type:Animation, Experimental, Student
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Runtime:20 minutes 20 seconds
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Completion Date:October 2, 2023
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Country of Origin:China
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Country of Filming:China
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Language:Chinese
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Black & White and Color
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First-time Filmmaker:Yes
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Student Project:Yes - China Academy of Art
Jiang Yixuan was born in Yuanling, Hunan Province, China in 2001. In 2020, he entered the China Academy of Art to study. In 2021, he entered the Free Art Studio of the Department of Intermedia Art, China Academy of Art. He currently works and lives in Hangzhou, China. The works involve video, photography, encrypted art, painting, installation, animation and other media, creating image animations in a comprehensive media way.
Ma Xingyu: Born in Jinhua City, Zhejiang Province, China in 2002, he entered the China Academy of Art to study in 2020 and the Free Art Studio of the Department of Cross-Media Art of the China Academy of Art in 2021. He currently works and lives in Hangzhou. The works involve multiple media including video and installation 3D.
In "The Night Before the Guns", in a square where reality and fantasy are superimposed, people try to fill themselves in various symbols to find evidence of existence. The symbols in the mud are the footprints left by all people. When existence depends on the symbols, the people who fill the symbols transform themselves into containers of symbols. Use the torch under the supervision of power to illuminate the totem printed by power on the circular black wall. The huge chimney in the center of the square is still billowing thick smoke, the great machine has never stopped, and people are still arguing about the people standing on the stage.
The sound of chopsticks came from the distant sky, and people sang along with the host. Even if the crowd was noisy, every word of the lyrics was still sonorous and powerful, symbols were written on one piece of paper, and the shutter sound of the camera seemed hurried , the singing crowd was a little restless, the people on the stage were disturbed by the wave in front of them, and the crowd who was engulfed by it couldn't stop surging...
The lights in the huge room flickered, the paintings hanging on the wall began to shake, and the power on the table waved its hands, but there was no sound. At last one heard only a dull and long-lasting thunderclap, so loud that there was no place in the world where it was inaudible. But people don't know where the thunder came from and how long it lasted. Amidst the continuous thunder, everyone kept their ears up and looked at the sky, waiting for the boiling rain to calm down with time, looking for an answer for existence. evidence.