Yumen

Set in a quasighost town that once thrived with oil in Chinas arid northwest Yumen is a haunting fragmented tale of hungry souls restless youth a wandering artist and a lonely woman all searching for human connection among the towns crumbling landscape One part ruin porn one part ghost story and entirely shot on 16mm the film brings together performance art narrative gesture and social realism not only to play with convention and defy genre but also to pay homage to a disappearing lifeworld and a fading medium