This time, without Pan Yu and He Sigeng, director Zhang Jing set off from Beijing alone with the100,000 yuan raised by 66 fans, all the way south, and began another journey to find craftsmanship.
The first stop came to Cangzhou, Hebei Province, to shoot Liu Quanxing, a steelyard craftsman, but he quit. I went from Cangzhou to Qixia, Shandong Province to shoot the grandson who made the sand bowl. However, the last time he cooked a bowl was seven years ago, and now the bowl has not been sold out. Some information provided by netizens is not very accurate. It seems that from the beginning, the front is full of difficulties.
But all the beginnings are like this, and smooth sailing is not so easy. Shooting, lighting, recording, when all can only rely on their own, Zhang Jing began to miss Pan Yu, He Sigeng and those who shared their days. But this time, they can't come. It's really hard to persist when you are alone, but in life, we walk alone and carry it alone most of the time.
Gradually, the shooting began to get on track. The film was finally finished, so there was this unique "Finding Craft 3". After reading it, I was deeply impressed in many places and wanted to share it with you.
First of all, Ma Qingshan of Hangzhou, Zhejiang made a lot of money and made a fortune by making urban landscape sculptures in his early years. He became an outstanding figure in the village.
But he was not satisfied with this, so he chose to improve his craft. That is, the previous raw materials changed from cement to polymer materials; Change the previous pure manual link into machine manufacturing. This is undoubtedly a great challenge for Ma Qingshan, who has only a junior high school education.
He spent a year researching and pondering a seemingly simple machine to make crane feet by winding adhesive tape on iron bars.
But until now, Ma Qingshan has failed after spending a lot of money. The crane he made could not be sold, so he had to ask someone else to put it in the park for free.
Like that close-up, the crane floats alone on the water, which is also the loneliness of Ma Qingshan.
However, his spirit. It can be said that it is a craftsman spirit. But not understood. Even become a laughing stock in the eyes of neighbors. They can't understand why Ma Qingshan doesn't do his own urban landscape honestly. In that case, he can still be very rich now.
I think of Strickland in Mao Mu's The Moon and Sixpence. As a securities broker working in new york, he has a successful career and a happy family. People can't understand his sudden escape and dream of becoming a painter. There were sixpence everywhere, but he looked up at the moon.
Ma Qingshan is also looking for his own moon.
For Yang Yiji of Youxi, Fujian, life is full of thorns. This shoot happened to meet them for a big project. Move the house by traditional craft. Yang Yiji is 72 years old, and his two helpers are 68 and 67 years old respectively. Three 200-year-old men moved their 240-year-old house back four meters, and then moved it about four meters to the right. This seems an impossible task.
It just rained and the house was still wet, so the first day's attempt was unsuccessful. The next day was a rare sunny day, and finally the first pillar was lifted. However, it took Yang Yi Ji five days just to lift all the 44 pillars in the seven rows of the house. The real time to start moving the house has to wait until the owner of the house determines the date.
While waiting, it rained again, making the old house heavier. However, the scheduled construction period is decreasing day by day, and there is not much time left.
Three days later, the landlord asked Mr. Feng Shui to decide when and where to move. The good news is, just step back three meters. However, when Yang Yiji and his family moved the house back three meters and began to move to the right, Mr. Feng Shui found that it was too far to move back and needed to move back. And it's not Yang Yiji's fault. All previous efforts were in vain, and all they could do was compromise.
Still alive. Whether it's social animals like "996" or "007" in high-end office buildings, or old people like Yang Yiji who are still struggling for a living, life never takes the initiative to be kind to anyone. The boss will not relax the requirements for you because you are a white girl who just entered the workplace, and the owner will not relax the standards because Yang Yiji and others are old.
How cruel! Seeing this, I can't help crying, and I will be overwhelmed by daily necessities in the future, but this is an adult's world and there is no tenderness at all. So we should learn to heal ourselves.
Next stop, Zhang Jing came to Yunfu, where a senior named Lin Guoqiang was waiting for him. What Lin Guoqiang wants to shoot is not traditional crafts, but some handicrafts he has made over the years.
Ordinary teenagers, what they love is not understood by their parents, and even this shooting is done secretly. And the work he did after that may have nothing to do with what he loves. It hurts, doesn't it? After so many years of persistence, I finally gave up.
Deja vu, a stubborn teenager like me.
One day in the fourth grade, I passed the bookstall on the street and fell into the whirlpool of comics. I haven't come back yet. At that time, my dream was to become a cartoonist, save money to buy comic books and copy them bit by bit.
Of course, I didn't get the support of my parents. It is said that I didn't do anything. I still remember taping torn comic books, and grievances and tears poured out.
I never mentioned the cartoonist again.
Now, perhaps after going to college, my family has gradually relaxed themselves and even encouraged me to paint, but I seem to have lost my enthusiasm and am confused after picking up the brush again. After painting, it can only become a hobby.
The last place I came was Xi 'an. The artist Yinghai wants to photograph the clothes made by her mother for herself. What impressed me more was a pair of jeans, which were worn out, but because he liked them very much, his mother had been mending them for him, and they have been worn for 20 years now.
The camera turned, and Yinghai's mother sewed clothes for Yinghai while singing an old ballad, "Ma, Ma, you walk slowly. I want to see the beauty of my hometown. "
I feel that this shot is handled particularly well. I think of Four Springs filmed by Lu Qingyi, which is dull, true and warm. There is an old saying that "the tree wants to be quiet, but the wind will not stop, and the child wants to raise it and not wait for it." Fortunately, Lu Qingyi didn't miss it, nor did she meet the sea. I hope you don't miss it.
Maybe it touched me. After filming Mother Facing the Sea, Zhang Jing remembered her mother. Then he gave up filming for a while, went home to watch his mother cook and listen to her nagging. However, all my mother talks about are ordinary little things. Zhang Jing and her mother talked about her childhood. My mother said that what she remembered all her life was that she didn't give enough material satisfaction to Zhang Jing's brothers when she was a child.
The film ends here. After reading it, I felt a lot. Life is bitter and difficult, and everything is full of disappointments. But there are still many things that warm us, the beliefs and dreams in our hearts, the comfort and encouragement of our families. Encourage us to move forward in the warmth of the world.