Look at the city with photography, and witness the times with the city.
Recently, the 2024 Weibo Image Year #Light and Everything Theme Film Festival# - Big City Little Things Exhibition was grandly kicked off at Wangjing SOHO, Chaoyang District, Beijing. The exhibition site was crowded and lively, which not only attracted many photography enthusiasts, but also was regarded as the first choice for walking by the urban white-collar groups around Wangjing.
Eight major units recorded "small things in the big city", and the scene was full of crowds
Ayutthaya is the beauty of modern China. It is the charming abstract structure of the building, the miraculous line patterns, and the geometric relationship of the interlaced spaces, which reflect each other into the song of the city. And the little things are you and me. It is the trivial life of firewood, rice, oil and salt, the savage growth with a face full of ashes, and the struggle for survival rooted in the vast city. Through exquisite works, this film festival vividly presents the contrast between the big city and the small things, showing the tenacity and beauty of individual life in the context of a grand narrative.
The first picture at the entrance of the film festival is "The Long Scroll of Ink and Clouds in Beijing", where clouds and mist roll from the skyline, surging over the buildings, and the old scene of Wang Ximeng's thousands of miles of rivers and mountains reappears. In order to guard the wonders of the sea of clouds, the photographer of this work climbed many mountains 15 times, spent the night in the humid and cold air after the rain, and went through a lot of hardships to get the long scroll of the sea of clouds. The audience was full of praise for this masterpiece and took photos with the work.
According to the on-site understanding, the film festival is divided into eight units: "Solidified Music", "Hundred Possibilities", "Living Up to the Youth", "Evening Lights", "Sky Realm", "Reverse Life", "Blues Moment" and "Life Like a Song".
Some of the works depict the city at night: when night falls, a bright moon hangs quietly above the tall buildings through the sparse branches, adding a touch of poetry to the city; Some photograph the seaside buildings: the afterglow of the sunset is sprinkled on the sea, and the golden light reflects the buildings in the distance, telling the prosperity and tranquility of the city; There are also records of high-altitude cleaners: on the mirror-smooth floor, a row of high-altitude cleaners are wiping the glass of the building, and the floor reflects the distant shadow of the building, as if time and space are intertwined......
These ingeniously conceived and visually stunning works attracted a large number of people from the surrounding area to the scene to have a look, and many viewers came from afar, and people stopped to watch, or take pictures, or exchange feelings with other people, and the atmosphere was quite warm.
"A lot of the photos are very well conceived, like telling the story of the city, I work in this neighborhood, and I will come here to cultivate it when I have time," said Xiao Zhang, who works as a copywriter.
Xiao Li, a post-00s who has just joined the work, came to visit the exhibition with her best friend, she said: "Recently, my work has been more bad, and I have been very touched by these works. ”
It is worth mentioning that, as a beautiful business card of Beijing's modern architecture, the unique avant-garde design of Wangjing SOHO, the venue of the film festival, complements the film festival with this film festival, and the combination of on-site architecture and art makes the entire exhibition space more rich and three-dimensional, creating an immersive atmosphere for visiting the exhibition, further boosting the enthusiasm of the event, and the good reputation of the film festival continues to ferment online and offline.
The audience of the six major events actively participated, and the popularity of the film festival was further boosted
In addition to the exhibition of works, the film festival also innovatively launched six major exhibition visits, attracting a large number of users to participate. "Weibo City Image Project": Audiences can publish their own architectural photography works in the Year of Photography, record each city they have walked through with images, and freeze the exclusive scenery of different cities; "Life Possibility Story Collection": The audience can print the Polaroid offline and paste it into the city story collection, and the image memories of different lives will gather together, leaving a unique life possibility in Wangjing; "Beijing Mutual Encouragement Challenge": Audiences can enter the activity group to find their own exclusive photography partner, abide by the mutual encouragement convention, and be tolerant and respectful of progress; "Beijing Life Filming Camera": Guide the audience to show the Beijing must-check camera in their hearts, share the film production strategy, and decorate other people's circle of friends; "Mobile Phone Image Drifting Project": What will be the story of a mobile phone drifting for 10 days? Open the application for flagship equipment, have a relay of image creation with strangers, and record the lives of different identities; "Photographer Roaming Salon": Audiences can join the activity group, participate in Weibo offline image master classes, meet more friends in the exchange salon, and re-understand the world together.
At the scene, people took out their mobile phones and scanned the QR code to participate in the event, which further increased the popularity of the film festival. Mr. Qin, who visited the exhibition on site, participated in the photographer's roaming salon activity, "I usually like photography, and I hope to meet more like-minded friends by participating in the roaming salon this time." ”
Ms. Wu, who participated in the "Beijing Life Film Booth" event, said: "I know a lot of attractions in Beijing that are easy to film, and I will share them", and she also participated in the "Weibo City Image Project": "I like to shoot beautiful buildings, I don't know how many photos have been filmed at Wangjing SOHO alone, and through this activity, I hope that more people can discover the beauty of Beijing." ”
As the first S-level super IP of Weibo in 2023, the Weibo Image Year has reached 4 million works since the beginning of the year, which can be regarded as a narrative scroll of contemporary life.· The film festival not only shows the charm and vitality of the modern city with the "big city", but also touches people's hearts with "small things", allowing every visitor to find their own story and moving between light and shadow, inspiring people's love and pursuit of life, and contributing to the construction of a more harmonious and beautiful society.