Question to Director Chen
I noticed that the rotating chimney appeared more than once in the film, what is the meaning of this? Liu Chang
Category: Workshop 2: Dreamland Film Screening + Director’s Chat
Question to Steve
When I look into this movie, I noticed that the unique Long Lenses you used are usually combines with people interaction. Why are you using these long lenses? I’m also wondering the space’s concept in your movie. I learnt from class that the space should be considered “dynamic”. However, It seems that the protagonist’s house happened so much things, which made it to be able to represent multiple emotions, or feeling of space. I wonder how you look at this room you created. Does this room, you created, have some relationship with the shot that one only bright glass window
Questions for director Chen
I noticed that some of the scenes is blocked by objects, for example pillars and windows. What is the purpose of doing so? Thank You
Question for Director Chen
I noticed there are different colors of light spots throughout the film, some of them even covered a half of the frame. Are they aimed to create a sense of ‘dream’? Also, may I ask why the background is set in Cambodia? Does this place imply anything related to the plot itself? Besides, I have watched a film focused on ‘dreams’ before. And how the director of that film created a sense of dream was through filters, like higher saturation of color and a blurring effect. Have you thought of those effects when making this film? Wang You
Question to Steve
About the screen language, I can see you intentionally leave some elements in the foreground, which separate the screen in to several parts. Could you share some of the idea of such arrangements?
Question to Director Chen
Hi Director Chen, I am Yan Chi Hong. A Landscape student. Thank you very much for bringing the movie today <Dreamland>. I am a Hong Kong person, and this is my first time watching a movie in another language instead of Cantonese, Mandarin, or English. It is a fantastic experience. I really like your film production technique, which uses simple narrative techniques to let us use the third person to glimpse the lives of the male and female protagonists. And in the composition of the movie shooting, I also greatly appreciate your extraction angles. Most of the time in the
[Questions to director Chen] Xu Yihan
This film is about a real estate agent and a photographer in Cambodia. The first half of the film switches between shots of the male and female protagonists at work and shots of them returning home at night to spend time together, and I would like to ask if there is any special meaning in filming this way? Due to the difference in their work, the female protagonist laments the changes in the male protagonist and expresses the sadness in her own heart. In the middle, there is a shot of her going to an amusement park to play the
Question for Director Steve Chen
Do you think the theme of real estate in the film seems to highlight a feeling of urban emptiness in a rapidly developing country like Cambodia? Because real estate itself is a representation of materialism and consumerism, acquiring properties equates to acquiring a sense of urban security. The film also features traditional Cambodian elements eg. traditional architectural structure like Angkor Wat and Cambodian ancient tales, they all play an interesting contrast with the rapidly developing modern Cambodia, Was it in your intention that the film is also a representation of the struggle between the past and the present in terms
Question for Director Chen
In the film, there are many scenes that used static and long shots during the conversations of the characters. May I ask are there any reasons behind this? Tong Wing Sum
Question to director Chen
Hello！May I ask is there any special meaning to the fact that in the scene where looking at the main character’s room through the window, there’s a red, green and blue light flashing alternately on the window all the time? Wang Dongtong 30399394