Lighthouse is about the labor system and the factory town in Southern China and how individualism is influenced by the social and political infrastructure. Guangdong District is the largest Metropolitan area in one of China's wealthiest provinces, and one of its cities, Guangzhou, attracts farmers from the countryside looking for factory work. The viewer is led to actively compose narratives through the poetic and the sublime images. It opens borders that separate cultural, linguistic and historical differences in the global labor systems.
Lighthouse
Chi Jang Yin
2009 00:16:15 China, United StatesEnglishB&W and ColorStereo4:3Description
About Chi Jang Yin
An experimental filmmaker with expertise in media and cinema studies, Chi Jang Yin's work investigates the missing gaps in history that are invisible to others. Her work often imbues her interest in photography and performance art and comments on the effect of individuals intertwining with political and socioeconomic infrastructure. Yin’s experimental films, Cinéma Vérité, observational documentary, and ethnographic film studies inform a diverse body of award-winning work recognized internationally in galleries, exhibitions, and film festivals. She received her BA and MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Yin teaches at the School of Cinematic Arts at DePaul University.