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''In Public'' () is a short documentary film directed by Jia Zhangke, a Chinese cinema "Sixth Generation" movement filmmaker. ''In Public'' was shot on digital video for the 2001 Jeonju International Film Festival. In many ways, the film was a test-run for the feature length fiction film, ''Unknown Pleasures''. Both films are shot digitally (a medium Jia would return to in ''Still Life'' (2006) and ''24 City'' (2008)), both are set in the city of Datong, and both share the same shooting locations.〔 As usual, Jia's regular collaborator Yu Lik-wai served as the film's director of photography.〔 The film also screened at the 2002 Marseille Festival of Documentary Film, where it won the Grand Prix.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Awards list 2002 )〕 == Background == ''In Public'' was made and submitted by Jia as part of a program at the 2001 Jeonju International Film Festival, where three directors were asked to produce a short film in digital video.〔 The other two directors who produced entries that year were Taiwanese filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang and British director John Akomfrah.〔 Setting up his camera in a train station in Datong, Jia made a film consisting of thirty shots over forty five days. Lacking in any formal plot, the film instead captures seemingly mundane moments, customers asking for the train schedule, shots inside public buses, etc. The result, according to Chinese film scholar Berenice Reynaud, is a film that captures the "ennui, backwardness, and dreary atmosphere of a small town, and the impatience, hidden desires and private concerns of its inhabitants."〔 For Jia, the film was a chance to focus on the public spaces in a modern provincial city of China: the train stations, discos, and karaokes of Datong. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「In Public (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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