Edge Town
Team: Hao Jiang, Hao Wu, Haoyu Shi, Zhuoying Wu, Lanke Tang
Credits:
Storyboard, Filming, Editing
Keywords:
Immgration, Urban Studies, Suzhou, Documentary
Edge Town It narrates Chefang, a town between Suzhou Industry Park and the rural area of Jiangwang. Due to its location, it cannot receive the welfare of SIP, additionally, or the rural area. The project was initiated by a field trip when I was working on my studio project,
Anonymous, which is a density housing project for immigration. According to the site analysis, lots of people in the Nanmen area are immigrants from the Wujiang area, characteristic places like Chefang. Thus, an interview was conducted by me during my research of Jiangwan and Chefang.
It was entered for the Cheap Cuts Documentary Film Festival and the London International Film Festival in 2017. However, it had to be withdrawn from these due to a complaint from the local government.