Plot Summary:The following images were sourced over the years from a recycling zone in the outskirts of Beijing. This archive of more than half a million 35mm color film negatives is a photographic portrait of the capital and the life of her inhabitants over the last thirty years. Here, we selected 3000 photos to create the animation you are about to see.
按下快门,镜头记录下每一个精彩的瞬间,纵使岁月流逝,相纸斑驳,当年那被定格下来的时刻却永远保留。遥远的笑容,你却不会觉得离你咫尺万里。曾几何时,艺术家苏文发现北京有一个专门收集硝酸银垃圾的回收人员,其中自然含有大量的摄影底片。苏文据此和对方达成协议,定期购买底片,重新洗印,并据此创立了《北京银矿》项目计划,该计划从2009至今从未停止。在此之后苏文和中国新生态的动画导演雷磊合作,将相关联的照片挑选出来,制作成短片动画。静止的图像活动起来,遥远的生活被瞬间拉近。 画面中呈现了一个时代的过去,我们曾经经历,从未远离……