Qinyuan LEI

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7. Unaccustomed Earth

November 18, 2018 by Q. Lei in blog

When I moved to Shenzhen to reunite with my migrant parents in the early 90s, we lived in a temporary hut with a tin roof. Every time when there was pouring rain, I would have to make myself earplugs out of cotton balls. The children TV shows I watched before the storm would instantly turn as mute as the battle of rain and thunder on the other side of the tin roof. It came as a surprise to me how quiet rain had become, since we moved to an apartment with concrete walls.

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November 18, 2018 /Q. Lei
Shenzhen, literature, China, Huaqiangbei, childhood
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4. The Storytellers

October 08, 2018 by Q. Lei in blog, documentary

Making a documentary consists of a series of waiting. We often have shooting days where nothing works as we expect. In documentary, you lose your sense of order of events, as if nothing happens at all through your lens, and all of a sudden, everything happen all at once. And you are never sure whether the nothing that happens or the everything would actually end up being an integral part to your story. So you push the record button, wait around, light a cigarette, take a sip of water, look into the tired eyes of your teammate, and smile with a nod, tacitly informing your teammate that you have not fallen asleep. But to the outsiders, you will look as if you’ve fallen so much in love with that which is in the shot.

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October 08, 2018 /Q. Lei
documentary, Shenzhen, literature, Huaqiangbei
blog, documentary
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