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Following the Currents: Jia Zhangke and Zhao Tao on Caught by the Tides
Zhao Tao and Li Zhubin in Caught by the Tides Few major auteurs have successfully used footage from their previous films to create an entirely new one on equal footing with their greatest works, but for Jia Zhangke, whose project has in large part been to document changes in China’s landscape and society, such reflexive behavior makes particular sense. In Caught by the Tides, we witness the intertwined changes in his aesthetic sensibility as partly determined by the technology that’s enabled it, from mini DV to the cold, immaculate sheen of today’s professional grade digital cinema equipment. Moreover, we witness the changes in Zhao Tao—Jia’s collaborator since Platform (2000) and, […]
