In China of the Nineties, as a consequence of the economic development, the fast expansion of urban areas and the requisition of enormous quantity of what used to be farmland, peasants start flooding in cities in droves and fight for the limited resources ( space, labor market, identity recognition… ) with the continuously expanding urban population. Following the intensification of the fighting, a specific way of living and therefore a new cultural and living environment are born. This documentary is shot in Chengdu, the capital city of Sichuan Province China. Along the newly constructed expressway to the airport, there is a group of villas built at the inception of the Nineties and left uncompleted for almost seven years. There, a marginal area between the city and the country, a group of four peasants from different parts of China gather together, They live in this “cave”-a result of the bubble economy, facing on one hand the harshness of being jobless due to the lose of the farmland and on another hand the urge to find a new position in this totally alienated space far from home. In this completely isolated situation, they have to start their new life…
March, 1999
该片记录了在中国四川省会成都，一条新建的通向机场的高速路两旁，遗留着九十年代初建筑并已停工近七年的一个别墅区内，居住着四个从不同地方来到这个城市边缘的农民，在这个泡沫经济遗留的空穴中，这些传统意义上的农民一方面承受失去耕地带来的“失业”；另一方面，他们又必须弃家出走，来到这个完全陌生的空间，重新找到自己的位置，并在一种完全隔离的状态下开始自己新的生活------。
关于《生活在别处》
随着逐个经济的发展，城市迅速的扩张，传统农村土地大规模的丧失，农民大量涌入城市，并与城市日益增长的人口共同形成了对于有限资源（空间、劳动力、身份------）的争夺。随着这种争夺的加剧，制造了一种特定时期的人的生存方式，并由此产生了新的文化与日常生活的状态。
我比较愿意从一种关系的角度——即通过日常生活的相关性、行为方式、具体场所的“进行时态”去阅读“对象”，或者说是在日常生活的实践中去理解文化的一种态度。
*designed by Li Zhenhua