https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/29046837-20a8-4b81-86a8-bd935470420f 'Comment Yukong Déplaça les Montagnes' / 'How Yukong Moved the Mountains' China, 1976, Joris Ivens & Marceline Loridan-Ivens Language Audio: ENG dub, Subs: N/A "Shanghai With Ivens in better health, and in the company of their new supervisor Chen Li-yen, the good-spirited film crew set off for Shanghai where three long films were to be shot in the space of three months. The team made a start in January 1973, focusing on a major labour dispute in a generator factory, with endless committee discussions and posters proclaiming the party line. Filming took place in pharmacy 3 in February and March. Zhou Enlai had recommended the place as a labour unit that had implemented the guidelines of the revolution in an exemplary manner. Ivens and Loridan spent the first couple of weeks helping the pharmacy’s staff and customers to get used to the presence of the cameras, such that the latter became almost unnoticeable during later filming. Cameraman Li Zexiang now realised what was expected of him, as did the second cameraman Chang. On March 11th and 31st, Ivens and Loridan examined the rushes together with their camera team: some panoramic shots and close-ups are blurred, but the colour balance is good; correct distance and close-ups in the meeting scene; Chang’s camera trembles in the factory; shots filmed with the hidden camera are very good...’ The filmmakers remained difficult to please, however, and shots they considered unsatisfactory had to be filmed anew. Filming in and around the harbour and shots of the traffic on the streets served as the ingredients for a third film, a portrait of the city, with a scene depicting overloaded bicycle carts bringing fresh produce from the countryside. One poor farmer isn’t strong enough to push her heavily laden cart across the bridge on her own. A colleague stops to help. China is a third world country, and the workers still have to bear a heavy burden, the commentary reminds us." -https://www.ivens.nl/ (https://www.ivens.nl/en/163-yukong-on-cannes-classics-2014) Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:49:40 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://tankie.tube https://tankie.tube/lazy-static/avatars/3ba3ff73-a8b6-49c9-add8-9653ef090c7f.webp https://tankie.tube/videos/watch/29046837-20a8-4b81-86a8-bd935470420f All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://tankie.tube/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.