Huifen Jia – Rarefilm Archive

Oxhide / Niu pi (2005) Huifen Jia, Jiayin Liu, Zaiping Liu

rarefilm — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 17:20:54 +0000

Daily life in an impossibly cramped Beijing apartment takes on epic proportions in this, intimate portrait, with unprecedented access, of a working-class Chinese family. Boldly transforming documentary into fiction, Liu Jiayin cast her parents and herself as fictionalized versions of themselves. Her father, Liu Zaiping, sells leather bags but is slowly going bankrupt. He argues with his wife, Jia Huifen, and his daughter over methods to boost business in the shop. A cloud of anxiety follows them into sleepless nights shared in the same bed. But through the thousand daily travails of city life, a genuine and deeply moving picture of Chinese familial solidarity emerges from the screen. With virtually no budget and boundless ingenuity, Liu Jiayin’s eye-opening debut, shot when she was 23 years old, consists of twenty-three static, one-scene shots within her family’s fifty square meter home. Liu keeps her small DV camera in claustrophobic closeness to her subjects, often showing only …

IMDB

File Name : OXHIDE.rarefilm.net.avi
File Size : 1.39 GB / 1421.17 MB
Resolution : 672×288
Duration : 01:49:23

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Mandarin
Subs: English (srt)
Genre: Drama, Documentary

OXHIDE.rarefilm.net.avi
OXHIDE.rarefilm.net.srt

Oxhide II (2009) Huifen Jia, Jiayin Liu, Zaiping Liu, Documentary, Drama

rarefilm — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 23:40:19 +0000

Just as in her previous film, Oxhide, the Chinese director films herself and her parents in their rather claustrophobic apartment with documentary realism. She uses nine fixed camera positions, with which she turns clockwise around the kitchen table (so that the last shot has exactly the same perspective as the first). The shots, from 5 to 20 minutes long, were made from close by, so that the three family members largely remain off-screen. The resulting rigorously minimalist story passes in real time: Oxhide II is as long as it takes to clear a worktable, to prepare Chinese dumplings on it and to eat them. While the meal is being prepared, the three talk occasionally about the problems surrounding their bag shop, with the wife and daughter having a serious word with the father. However, as long as they talk about making dumplings, the family is united.

Also Known As (AKA): Niupi er, Cuerno de buey 2

IMDB

File Name : Niupi er.avi
File Size : 1106.24 MB
Resolution : 720×304
Duration : 02:13:52
Video : MPEG-4 Visual (XviD), 956 Kbps, 25.000 fps
Audio : MPEG Audio (MPEG-1 Audio layer 3), 192 Kbps (CBR), 48.0 KHz, 2 channels, 1 stream

Quality: DVDRip
Language: Mandarin
Subs: English (hardcoded)
Genre: Documentary, Drama

Niupi_er.avi