ADDRESS UNKNOWN
明信片
A short film by Xiaolu Guo
China 2006, 11 mins
SYNOPSIS
From a Beijing apartment, a woman is writing postcards to a man in London.
We don’t see the woman or the man, there's only the camera contemplating Beijing in a melancholy eye. Each postcard is a long static shot.
The woman’s voice tells her loneliness in a rapidly changing China: highways, labour workers, meat market, people in the street…
All the postcards return - address unknown. Her lover seems to have disappeared from the other side of the world.
On a rainy night, she cancels her return flight to Europe.
China 2006
11 mins, digibeta 16:9, colour, stereo
spoken English
Written, filmed, directed and produced by Xiaolu Guo
© Xiaolu Guo Productions 2006