ApHasiA: Describe the city you live in
United States, 10 mins
An individual re-examines her relationship with the city she lives in as she finds herself situated in a surreal speech therapy room.
Writer/Director: Shan Jiang
Producers: Joyce Yueyi Xing, Hongwei Wu, Qianfan Chen
Director of Photography: Yuxin Cha
Editor: Roxy Zhiqiu Jin
Composer: Annie Hart
Cast: Tianding He, Yuexing Sun
Contact: Shan Jiang, sj2917@columbia.edu
Virtual Screening
Thursday, May 11, 2023
Program G
Sunday, May 14th at 5pm ET
About the Writer/Director
Born and raised in China but having spent the totality of her adulthood in the US, Shan Jiang is a writer-director who is compelled to explore various narrative techniques in illustrating human emotions that are at times suppressed and abstract. She strives to strike a balance between experimental and narrative filmmaking.
About the Producers
Joyce Yueyi Xing is an indie producer based in New York City. She has produced more than 15 short films and one feature film. Notable works as a producer include In the Dusk (2020), an official selection of the Atlanta Film Festival and My Heavenly City (2023), a feature film sponsored by Taiwan Ministry of Culture, filmed in New York, and to be distributed by mm2 Asia.
Hongwei Wu is an international producer who was born and raised in Guangzhou, China. She is awarded the 2022 Tribeca Through Her Lens grand prize. She has worked on 50+ shorts of different budgets and scales, including One for Sorrow, Two for Joy which won the Short Film Jury Prize at the Austin Film Festival and is qualified for the Academy Awards.
Qianfan Chen is a bilingual producer based between the US and China. She worked as an assistant producer in Tencent Pictures and worked as one of the producers for TV series “Drama Detective” made by Bilibili Inc. Her films have been screened at the New Era Film Festival, Glade Film Festival and Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival.