Decoupling
Original title 脱钩
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Decoupling was once a term primarily used in cosmology, but it has now taken on a geopolitical significance, referring to the deteriorating relationship between China and the U.S. The film Decoupling is the story reflected by a “Chinese” father on the changing relationship between China and the US, during his trip to Beijing to retrieve his 3-year-old “American” daughter who has been stranded because of the recent decoupling of the two countries.
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Author/s Yinan Wang
Born in China and living in the American Midwest, filmmaker Yinan Wang attempts to unpack his own experience of how a transnational migrant family deals with the distress caused by identity, nationalism, and geopolitics.
“I was born and raised in Beijing. After working on a number of ethnographic projects in China I moved to the United States and spent a number of years in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. I see myself as an independent filmmaker, engaged at the intersection of Chinese and American cultures. My work always deals with the uncertainty and fluidity caused by my identity. As a transplant, continuously adopting, absorbing, and adjusting between where I grew up and where I’m living generates an energy. This flux energy sparks my filmmaking interest and the way I am observing my immediate surroundings.”
Research Yujing Wang, Dick Blau
Sound Josh Everson, Shakuru Tajiri