AAA Cargo
Synopsis
Mapped through footage, interviews, field recordings and found WeChat videos; government efforts to speed up the movement of trade collide with more-than-human choreographies of sand, people and goods. 'Paralogisticians' hack infrastructural space through transnational guanxi and long distance friendships. Desert sands made restless by Westerly winds disrupt roads, railways and sometimes engulf whole cities. Through a disorientation of the senses – bodies and landscapes become mobile.
Official Selection Rotterdam International Film Festival 2018 - World premiere
Details
- Year
- 2017
- Type of project
- Shorts
- Running time
- 34 mins 3 secs
- Format
- H.264
- Director
-
Solveig Suess
- Producer
- Solveig Suess
- Editor
- Solveig Suess
- Screenwriter
- Ming Lin, Solveig Suess
- Director of Photography
- Solveig Suess
- Production Designer
- Solveig Suess
- Sound
- Josh Feola
- Composer
- Josh Feola
- Principal cast
- Ravi Sundaram, Charmaine Chua, Rune Reyhé, Li Tiaojie, Andrei Daler
- Voice-over
- ChaCha, Been Shen
- Translations
- Jennifer Zhang
- Script excerpts
- 'Holding Patterns' by Jerry Zee
Production Status
Production Company
Sales Company
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