CineCina Presents: Journey to the West 宇宙探索编辑部 ENCORE SCREENING

KONG Dashan 孔大山 | 2021 | China | 118 minutes | Mandarin with Chinese and English subtitles

Sharing the same title as Chinese classic literature, JOURNEY TO THE WEST is not a story about the Monkey King, but about an ordinary man's continuous pursuit of UFOs in the Chinese countryside. TANG Zhijun, editor-in-chief of Space Exploration magazine, together with his fellows, went to investigate the collective sighting of an unidentified flying object in a village called Burning Nest, where a stone ball disappeared from the mouth of a stone lion.

Based on historical reality, JOURNEY TO THE WEST is a sci-fi film with a nostalgic style. It combines the vintage aesthetic of realism with the genre by collaging footage of different textures, such as VHS images, vintage television broadcasting images, as well as documentation footage. Deep down inside, it is also a film about chasing faded love.

导演孔大山的处女作是一部以伪纪录片手法拍摄的荒诞喜剧，通过VHS、电视广播、采访影像的拼贴，将现实主义的复古美学与类型片相结合。它抒发了对于一个时代的缅怀：中国新媒介的兴起带来了超越人们认知的信息爆炸，也激发了人们对未知、新奇和刺激的探索。人们一度着迷于对“世界未解之谜”的天马行空的阐释，尽管许多理论在如今看来已经显得荒诞离奇。

《宇宙探索》主编唐志军如今苦于维持杂志的运营，生活也落魄潦倒。多年痴迷于地外文明真相的他面对希望与现实之间的落差，毅然动身前往中国西南的乡间田野，调查一个村庄中的不明飞行物事件。他集结志同道合的伙伴，就此踏上了追随信仰的奇妙旅程，寻找宇宙本源和宇宙生命的存在意义。

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