wow.

OMG this is Soooo good! And what fantastic photography!

those images where so beautiful. i love the texture of the sound too

awesome

nice presentation. maybe a little wordy on a few screens that could have been covered over two or more but still, quite nice. thanks.

melancholy and beautiful. China is a beautiful but somehow sad place from your pictures.

indiscribably beautiful an' hauntin' an' wonderous!
thank you! ;)*

emotional and spiritual food :)...have no words to describe it...:) cheers !

This reminds me of my experience as a Utah farm boy when I went to New York City for the first time in the 1950s.

女子

Very deep ... thanks

Stellar. I've lived in china for 5 years but it's been 8 years since I move away and I have a very profound desire to re-experience that amazing place.

I loved the high-contrast, grainy film look of the photos. The music was beyond fantastic and the text narration was very nicely done.

Liked for sure!

great storytelling.

thanks so much for sharing that story. I was spellbound

Rather stark and very poignant. Feels like the bottem fell out. Simple, direct, and full of disappointment - human disappointment!
Henry

BJ Will Always Full Of Hope Cos' We are

Amazing! The photos are made on BW film, right?

It's brilliant...

Very beautiful.

thank you

transfixed for 8 minutes 18 seconds. thank you.

Excellent photography! I was glued to the screen.

basic truth from the eyes to the heart.well done!!! p.s. love the music. well done mate,all the best duncan..

Great,my friend.thank you.

incredible work :)

Thank you for your story

Thanks for sharing this with us...

Beautiful.

very nice pictures and beautiful music!

amazing photos...

An intimate portrait on loneliness and disappointment...
Sad but beautiful storytelling.
My sincere thanks for sharing this look on your days and the ways of China.

Best regards from Portugal,
Ricardo Silva
DigitalSlavery.net

Beautiful images. Amazing texture that reveals the dark atmosphere. Maybe the most impressing work I watched on Vimeo.

fantastic photography!
thank u for the mood

I definitely enjoyed it how it was, but wonder if it could have done without the subtitles. I think the photography and music speak for themselves, even at the risk of leaving a misinterpretation of what actually happened.

Or maybe you could have just said what needed to be said at the beginning, then left out subtitles until the second part, and introduced that as well.

Again, the pictures speak for themselves, and I do like this. It just might have been moving on another level otherwise.

Beatiful approach for telling a story.
Chris Marker style.
congratulations!

Another wasteful video made by another yuppie. I totally agree with Dan Lowe, your subtitles ruined the whole thing for me. Your interpretation of China is the typical western interpretation. You only observe with your rational half. It's not your fault, because you are not Chinese and therefore you will never understand the Chinese soul. I'll leave you with a quote from Confucius because you like to quote him... "Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it."

Though I still found your visuals and sound beautiful, I was left wanting for a reflection of a deep beauty that is also China, in this Mr. Wang may have a point,....

I loved the ending...

wow! beautiful...ok! they have a point, but still beauty as a requiem (...)...you have something to say in a very personal style, and it´s your work...(wasteful????...I don`t think so).

great story, felt a commonality that drew me in.

really moving.

You made sadness so beautifull, good job

very beautiful

Absolutely Stunning.

those are some absolutely beautiful shots.

Bravo!

It seduced me... lovely contrast. Wow, thanks for this

Masterful. The feel is so calm and typography fitting. I had a hard time reading some of the titles in the latter half while first watching, perhaps because the music and images pull time to a near stand-still and my mind fell into pace, not wanting to adjust to read so quickly, so you might consider lengthening them slightly if you're not done with this piece for good. Excellent work, either way.

Also did you develop any (black and white) film yourself beforehand, or make your chosen shots all have this appearance from within your video editing software. The contrast works very well, and is clearly adjusted in your video editor at least, but I am curious about a few of the 'spotlight' exposures in particular. Again, excellent work, and way to nail a narrative!

yo también he visto esto, y también estoy agradecido a quién lo haya realizado. Muy bueno.

My brain exploded from the result of this artsy fartsy piece of emotional crap. This film has caused me to stab my cerebrum with a post-it until I die, or amnesia allows me to forget ever witnessing this.

Besides that, great film. It has moved me and many mountains such as Mount Everest which is 29,028 ft located in Nepal-Tibet first climbed in 1953, Mount Kilimanjaro which is 19,340 ft located in Tanzania, and Mount McKinley which is 20,320 ft located in the US.

Mount Everest was first climbed by Sir Edmund Hillary, NZ and Tenzing Norgay on May 29,1953. Climbing this mountain however did not further scientific progress and nothing was discovered from it. Yet their names were instantly remembered because of the spirit that was shown to climb this goliath.

Long live film!

nice- makes me go search for / start a Chris Marker ++ channel!

WOW! What a great pile of POOP! Fantastic maloncholy propaganda! its never a surprise a white dude never exoticized native americans or the beautiful life style aboriginal "Indigenous Australians" MMMM why is that? Oh and the only joy is jerk off on a cheap porn? what was the cat houses in denmark not good enough for you? Another euro-trash sextourist looking for a hooker with a heart of gold? yes do you even care about the chinese in the country to learn the language?

powerful !!!

I have to say I was glued and mesmerized!I thought it was quite the adventure...

nice images and music. but your interpretation was too simple and personal. don't judge.