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The vanishing spring light / [produced by] EyeSteelFilm ; director, Xun Yu "Fish" ; producer, Daniel Cross, Tao Gu ; a film by Xun Yu "Fish".
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Death--China.
- Death.
- Families--China.
- Families.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (112 minutes)
- Other Title:
- Tales of West Street : the vanishing spring light
- Place of Publication:
- Canada : Eye Steel Film, [2011]
- Language Note:
- In Chinese with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- On a street set to vanish with redevelopment, a grandmother suffers a stroke and loses what little freedom she had. Conflict between her children deepens at her bedside, prompting reflection on her past in a startling portrait of honesty in the face of death. The first of a four-part series documenting the "ancient urban community" of West Street, "The Vanishing Spring Light" follows Grandma Jiang in her final days. The matriarch of an ordinary Chinese family, she has suffered a stroke after an accidental fall. As her health deteriorates, conflicts within the family begin to emerge. While Grandma Jiang is consumed by her illness, the family struggles to avoid collapse. "The Vanishing Spring Light" is a film about a family's love and loss, obligation and attachment, guilt, transformation and destiny.
- Participant:
- Jiang Su-Hua, Kou Shao-Xi, Xiang Jia-Rong, Da Wan-Bi, Xiang Qian-Hong.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed July 06, 2020).
- OCLC:
- 926721898
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