THE OLD FOOL WHO MOVED THE MOUNTAINS

(YUGONG YISHAN)

Editor / Sound Editor / Post Supervisor

HD Short / 28 minutes / 2008

Dir. Joanna Vasquez Arong

Old Fool Films


The documentary explores the spirit of The Old Fool through three generations. Yugong Yishan refers to an ancient Chinese fable of an old man coined a fool for attempting to move the mountains that blocked the path in front of his house. Yugong Yishan is also a story in the Little Red Book, which Chairman Mao required everyone to memorize during the Cultural Revolution. Today, Yugong Yishan is the name of a small, non-descript bar, owned by a Chinese musician Gouzi, located in the heart of Beijing, which has been marked for demolition.


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