On the Passage of A Few Persons Within a Rather Brief Unit of Time

On the Passage of A Few Persons Within A Rather Brief Unit of Time

Cong Feng

Release year: 2020

Run time: 15 mins

Film type: Experimental Film

The title is an original appropriation of a ready-made film. The title of this past film is a fitting place for an observation of an experience of today. Echoes are the replay of past sounds in the soundstage of today. What we have said may have been said in time past. What we have experienced may have been experienced by someone else long ago. Echoes exist because the spatial structures that create them continue to exist, and the sound source is still vibrating somewhere. Language and experience both have an echo effect.

CONG Feng, born in Chengde in 1972, is a filmmaker and writer, and serves on the editorial board of Film Auteur. He has previously worked at the National Satellite Meteorology Centre of China and as cultural editor for The International Herald Leader. His major films include Stratum I: The Visitors (2013), Stratum II: Asthenosphere (2021), and Another Part of the World: Ghosts and Their After-Images (2024), among others. His most recent publication is a poetry collection titled So-Called History (2025).

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