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Jia Zhangke on ‘Caught by the Tides’ and Looking Forward and Backwards at the Same Time
Senior Chinese indie filmmaker Jia Zhangke talks ‘Caught by the Tides’ and how he is able to look forwards and backwards at the same time.
Jia Zhangke, China’s quintessential indie director, says that the COVID-era lockdowns gave him a chance to rethink and review the miles of footage that he has shot over more than 20 years of filmmaking. In “Tides,” Jia mixes up older footage with specially-created new material and has his wife and muse, Zhao Tao wander through twenty years of Chinese history. That willingness to simultaneously to travel backwards and forwards, through fact and fiction, means that Jia’s upcoming projects may include both a film about Chinese history and another on artificial intelligence.
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