Three men perched in a tree communicate at night using animal noises, following an ancient tradition. Filmed in an urban park, the piece echoes the large-scale movement of the Chinese population in recent decades and the loss of traditional means of communication that this entails.
© Zhou Tao, Chick speaks to duck, pig speaks to dog, 2005 © Zhou Tao Crédit photographique : © Fondation Louis Vuitton / Martin Argyroglo
Since the early 2000s, Zhou Tao has captured China’s rapidly changing society in his films.
Coming from a performance background, he considers film as a means of recording individual and collective experiences, focusing on the body and its movements. Using the language of the documentary, the spectator observes its actors and identifies the profound meaning of reality in an intuitive, poetic form.
Ten Thousand Waves, 2010
Isaac Julien
RMB CITY secondlife city planning, 2007
Cao Fei
Live in RMB City, 2009
Cao Fei
Tonight Moon (Jin Wan De Yue Liang), 2000
Yang Fudong
My Ideal, 2008
Xiaogang Zhang
New, 2014
Xu Zhen
Eternity-Tianlongshan, Grottoes Bodhisattva, Winged Victory of Samothrace, 2014
Xu Zhen
Sudden Awakening, 2006
Zhang Huan
Great Leap Forward, 2007
Zhang Huan
National Day, 2009
Zhang Huan
All Crows Under the Sun Are Black!, 2012
Yan Pei-Ming
Les Temps Modernes, 2015
Yan Pei-Ming
