Title: The Forgotten City
Year made : in production
Length: 47 mins
Region: Taiwan/China
Produced by CNEX, Dynamic Communications Company & Dwenfu Production House
Producer: Gary Shih
Director: Huo Ning
Synopsis
For Chinese, the last century is more
than a war era, starting from
Sino-Japanese War in 1931, Second World War in 1937, Civil War in 1945, Korean War in 1950, and the smell of gunpowder
spread all the way to the 1980s since the tension between China
and The Soviet Union in 1966. People living in that era were unable to resist fate. However, the war was just like a sequela after a serious
illness, which carved the
invisible mark on them, such as Ning and Gary.
Ning lives in Zhengzhou City while being a native of the Northeast;
Gary lives in Taipei while being a native
of Jiangsu. Both of their grandfathers left their hometown
to another entirely strange city for
wars.
In 1949, Gary’s grandfather was a low-level school staff in Jiangsu, China. Duo to The Civil War, his grandfather and most of his family migrated to Taiwan with the KMT party and stayed for sixty years. His grandfather was never able to return home again. In 1969, Ning's grandfather was a supervisor in a munitions factory in the Northeast. Because of Mao’s strategic needs, Ning’s grandfather was sent to a remote mountain in Henan to build a new factory and stayed in the mountain for over fourty years.
In 1949, Gary’s grandfather was a low-level school staff in Jiangsu, China. Duo to The Civil War, his grandfather and most of his family migrated to Taiwan with the KMT party and stayed for sixty years. His grandfather was never able to return home again. In 1969, Ning's grandfather was a supervisor in a munitions factory in the Northeast. Because of Mao’s strategic needs, Ning’s grandfather was sent to a remote mountain in Henan to build a new factory and stayed in the mountain for over fourty years.
Growing up in a foreign land, Ning and Gary have
only a vague impression of their hometown, by the stories heard from their grandparents and parents when they were little. When someone asks them “Where
are you from?” They share a common
confusion: “Where is my hometown?”
The
film will start from the personal stories of Ning and Gary, and
extend to people of a abandoned three-line
military factory in Henan, China and also those of a removing
military community in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. We will see the hometown
in their memories and their current and future homes with their migratory paths and the journey of livies. Whether
it’s fourty or sixty years,
whether in Taiwan or China, these people now became old or even
passed way. The houses or fatories they built are already in poor condition. The reason they
migrated had already been blurred
by reality. Moving away has become the common destiny of
the two sides.
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