Synopsis: Chen Lu, the first experimental newsreel directed by the painter LIN Xin, tells a story of an old ceramic county with almost 1000 years of history on the hinterland of loess plateau. The newsreel is composed of a prelude with a 360-degree panorama and three other parts entitled Soliloquies, Essence of Art and Civilian Landscape. Soliloquies presents, from different perspectives, with one sentence from each native, the Chen Lu in local people's own hearts by close-ups of tens of Chen Lu people consisted by men and women, young and old. Through the techniques of symbolizing and the scenes with tension, Essence of Art displays the attraction of traditional ceramic art, such as artificially making flans and cutting flower patterns, as well as the production procedures. The part of Civilian Landscape shows not only the folkway and civilian houses, but also the special and widely-known scenery – guanguanqiang, a wall built up with ceramic pots. With an intensive gaze and poetic wording, the newsreel attempts to impress the audience with the last view of Chen Lu – a county with a fading glory and dying traditions; a county that once made a boast of its ever-bright mountain.
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