Qiu Sheng, director of "My Father's Son": "I seek to reveal our ghosts"
Trained in medical engineering, Qiu Sheng will not be the first engineer to put aside his discipline to join the world of cinematography. Born in Hangzhou, capital of Zhejiang province in eastern China, he learned filmmaking at the University of Hong Kong and in 2018 signed an ambitious first feature film, Suburban Birds , which only found its way to Chinese cinemas late in the day. We discover this young author with My Father's Son , a delicate film with very personal inspiration, as is the case every time a director undertakes to evoke, through fiction, the relationship between a son and a father.
In your film, you tell the story of the loss of a father, and you yourself lost your own father as a teenager. Was this event a determining factor in your artistic vocation?Yes, my father's passing was a pivotal moment in the development of my artistic journey. This loss made me more sensitive to the anomalies of the world, to broken families, to the spirits that haunt the living. The summer after my father's death, I became addicted to video games and movies. I turned to images and sounds after losing a real person, to search for a substitute. I don't think this is a coincidence. It's this impulse to find substitutes that we also find in My Father's Son.
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