In the highly anticipated 2023 HiShorts! In Xiamen Short Film Week, a short film called Lost in Shanghai stood out in the packed theater, which was highly praised by audiences and filmmakers, and won the nomination for Best Drama and Growth Unit awards. At the award ceremony, famous filmmakers from home and abroad, guests of short film judges, and creators on the scene sent sincere wished to Hanyu Hu , who is the director of Lost in Shanghai. This is the young director Hanyu Hu's creation Lake Heart Brunch listed 2022HiShorts! after another heavy weight class honor.
With the HiShorts! Xiamen short film Zhou praised the blessing,Lost in Shanghai was quickly spread among young people. It was invited to the Hongkou Video Archive, Owl Comedy, and including Fudan University, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, East China Normal University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and other universities, and earned enough popularity. Since then, Hanyu Hu has doubled her value with Lost in Shanghai of his representative creation and become a typical representative of Chinese youth culture.
Lost in Shanghai is spread rapidly from mouth to mouth.It has no famous actors, no elaborate sets, and no script in the eyes of the audience. However, the film opens a new world for the Mumblecore film of china.
For the director, you should have your own opinion. Hanyu Hu, a young director, believes that young directors should have a young style and embrace the new trend bravely. How to let the form to obey his own expression, and he used the Mumblecore way to integrate his own life understanding into "Lost in Shanghai". This is a feature film that shows several groups of young people in Shanghai west Bank and other trendy art area encounter and conversation, to show the current situation of young educated white-collar workers in Shanghai.
Mumblecore is an American independent film movement that originated after 2000. It features a low budget, non-professional actors and naturalistic performances, and intensive dialogue with a large number of modal words. In Lost in Shanghai, Hanyu Hu shows a unique approach to innovative production skills.
Hanyu Hu believes that movies must not be pretentious, should not be mysterious, and should not be sophisticated production as the essence of films. The experience of South Korean director Hong Sangxiu, is his distinguished alumnus, and has made him more determined that films should return to their essence. Indeed, the films of Hong Shangxiu are also cheaper and cheaper, but the ideas are higher than the films. Hanyu Hu likes the DIY texture very much, so also he created the "Lost in Shanghai". No star, and zero-cost shooting. Since the filming, Hanyu Hu has hardly spent any money. Without actors, he called for friends. The shooting equipment was to rub friends.The whole film did not spend a penny to rent the space, and even the later music special effects were completed by himself. These versatile warm-hearted friends, who believe in her strength, and more recognize this unique shooting style, but also were happy together for the film.
In this short film, although Hanyu Hu chosed the Mumblecore without elaborate expression, but hoped that his film can have his own personality. He had done. In the eyes of the audience, this is a film with a naturalistic realism. At the same time, he skillfully combines humorous elements and naturalistic techniques of expression, which well arouses the emotions of the audience, so that the film can move the audience and establish emotional resonance. In fact, when he decided to create Lost in Shanghai, Hanyu Hu already had a deep feeling that it would be full of empathy.
After eight years of creative career, Hanyu Hu is fruitful, from "Lost in Shanghai"，"the first base" MV，"human" MV, "coral dance" MV, to "Sanya", Vans 2023 "rabbit CNY advertising", electronic cigarette Metaku advertising, etc. "Rock n Roll Kungfu" won the jury award from the CMF Film Festival in 2018. "Power Chord" was nominated for the Drama unit honors and awarded by the Indie Short Film Festival in 2019. "OpSca 1 Camouflage" won the Independent Spirit of the Year and Video Art Awards by the Experiemental Forum Film Festival in 2019. "Cat Trip" won the Independent Spirit of the Year Award and Growth Unit Award at the MIFW Film Festival.
To express yourself, to shout out your own voice. In the long journey of creation, the young director Hanyu Hu has opened a wonderful prelude to life, and the future road is long and full of uncertain challenges. Mumblecore is just a deconstruction of the current exquisite films, and the unremitting pursuit of life and art will become the inexhaustible source of his creation.（By Mignon）