Far from Home

Far from Home
Creator	Zhibin Qin
Year	2019
Bio	Zhibin Qin (CN) is a visual artist based in Shanghai and Rotterdam. He has a good eye to capture the beauty and he is full of passion to explore the cinematic technology. In the past two years, he creates short narrative films, commercial video projects, vlogs, and documentaries. His works reveal his strong interest in shaping the critical and honest narrative methodology in the film. He focused on the air pollution in his hometown; He spent months on the cinematic technologies to design special effects in films; He explored the reason behind the camera fear by testing with people with different cameras in multiple scenarios. He constantly makes different types of films and he wants to shape his own cinematic language.
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Far from Home In the film Far from Home (2019) Zhibin shares his homesickness while he lives in Rotterdam which is 9000 Kilometers away from his hometown in China. He strives to adapt and accept different culture in the Netherlands and that makes him feel further and further away from his hometown. Thus he calls his family and friends very often to keep himself in the ‘comfort zone’. In the film, Rotterdam is depicted as a beautiful and modern place but it holds an energy that is cold, strange and no sense of belonging. Along with the image, the conversations between Zhibin and his families bring us into their daily lives. Their topics are private and simple but they are saturated with love and yearning.

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