KUN 1 ACTION

Wu Haohao | China 2008 | 79 min.

Material: DV
Format: DVD
Original language: Mandarin

Script: Wu Haohao
Camera: Wu Haohao
Editing: Wu Haohao
Sound: Wu Haohao

Production: Wu Haohao
Print/Sales: Wu Haohao

KUN 1 ACTION is a wake-up call for young people in China. With his collage of interviews, archive material and reconstructions, the film maker Wu Haohao hopes to 'save local film from degeneration'. Self assured, crazy and naughty.

Philosophising is juxtaposed with explicit sex, sex with poetry, poetry with horrendous life stories in which the Chinese specialize in this film. Wu Haohao reveals himself to be an unpolished provocateur with a preference for bombast and irony. Battle songs reverberate in satirical versions, monuments are desecrated with red stars, day trippers are terrified by wild screaming. KUN 1 ACTION is a very serious, self-aware collage with a wink at Jean-Luc Godard.

Wu Haohao , born in 1986 in Shanxi Province, filmmaker of the Chinese "Underground". He studied film in Chongqing and later at the Beijing Film Academy.

Films (selection): 2009 Umbrella | 2008 Kun 1 Action, Criticzing China | 2007 People's Artist, Jia Jinshu, Forbid Silence

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