Director: YANG Xiao

Screenwriter: YANG Xiao

Productor: YANG Xiao, CHEN Sisi

Cinematographer: YANG Xiao

Editor: YANG Xiao

Sound: CHEN Sisi

Music: XIE Yunqing

Starring: QIN Naibao, LUO Fengqin, HE Zhenjun

​导演：杨潇

编剧：杨潇

制片人：杨潇、陈思思

摄影：杨潇

声音：陈思思

音乐：谢云卿

主演：覃乃标、罗凤勤、何振军

About the film

Folk songs in today’s China are mostly visible in tourist campaign where singers and their chantings are stereotyped. Prevalent cultural hegemony reinforces the self-othering images of Zhuang people (ethnic group who mostly live in South China) and their cultural heritage, and accelerates the shattering of Zhuang people’s country life. To challenge this kind of fictionalization, in THE MOUNTAINS SING, director Yang Xiao ventures into rural areas and urban cities, to find different singers and gatherings of Zhuang people, trying to rediscover the broken echo of the folk songs they sing.

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THE MOUNTAINS SING is a ethnofiction, a documentary film, but more than that: it follows the current situation of Zhuang folk songs in the midst of unstoppable political and economic trend, ponders the resilience of cultural forms in this Internet age, reflects the migration of labor, the planned landscaping of countryside, in an observational and constructive way. In the director’s own words, this film can be a prose without narration, an album of improvised poems, a fragmented Zhuang folk song itself in cinematic form.

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