Shan Shui

Shan Shui

2006, France, 16mm, colour, silent, 5 min.

Shanshui, literally Mountain and water, notably refers to a literary and pictorial landscape in Chinese culture where an intimate experience between the human and the natural appears in the image and the written. Here, the cinematographic transcription reveals the physical shapes of the landscape, its contours and broken rhythms, its depths and folds, in order to capture its scenic values as well as its expressive qualities.