During 2020 when the pandemic policy loosened, a violinist went back to hometown to meet his parents and friends. A sudden accident happened. Everything changed and a ceremony is no longer a “ceremony”. This film presents the tension between nonfiction and fiction. It is a hope that a modern-day social atmosphere, which is much more dreadful than the reality itself, can be captured.
Bichun Yang
Bichun Yang was born in Hubei Province, China, in 1990. After finishing his translation degree in the mainland, he went to study the MFA program in Hong Kong Baptist University. His graduation short film “小南門” (Xiaonanmen) premiered at the 4th Ground Up Student Film Festival in Hong Kong. A Land With No Ceremony (2024) is his feature-length documentary debut.
Yemeng Zheng
Yemeng Zheng is a Hong Kong-based Chinese cinematographer. With the educational background of Cinematography and Narrative Documentary in Boston University, she studied independent documentary in Hong Kong Baptist University. She serves as both the producer and the cinematographer of Bichun Yang’s debut documentary, A Land With No Ceremony (2024).
“Ritual without reverence is empty.” In The Analects, Confucius says that without humanity, rituals are nothing but empty shells. The spirit is echoed in A Land With No Ceremony (Bichun Yang, 2024). This film departs from a violinist’s homecoming to her village in Hong Kong in 2020, when the world was just beginning to breathe…
