Tide

Overview

In the 1950s, soldiers from Changping, north of Beijing, were ordered to build up Xin Jian, which lies to the city’s south. Their families stayed, and many of the people who until recently lived in Xin Jian had spent their whole lives there.One woman, now in old age, was born here in the 50s’. She had always fed the dozens of stray cats that lingered near her house, and wanted to take them with her in the move. But she couldn’t catch them. She returned every day while the demolition work was ongoing to feed the cats, until one day they stopped coming. The film uses photos, interviews, and sounds from the village to show a space full of ruins, where people, animals, and objects alike are homeless and lost, or have ceased to exist