Wenn der Film vorbei ist und das Leben weitergeht …
Filming is over and life goes on …

  
 
       
 

Wir haben Xu Zuowei im Juli 2007 getroffen: auf der Documenta in Kassel, wo der Künstler Ai Weiwei im „Fairy Tale“-Projekt 1001 Chinesen nach Kassel holte. Zuowei war einer von ihnen!
Wir verbrachten ein wenig Zeit zusammen und er erzählte uns von seinen Zukunftsplänen. Er möchte China verlassen. Er hat sich an vier australischen Universitäten zum Filmstudium beworben, wurde an einer angenommen, macht gerade englische Sprachtests und hat sein Visum in Beijing beantragt. Wenn alles gutgeht, ist er im Mai in Australien.
Was er über sein Leben, die Zukunft und sich realisierende Wunder denkt, gibt es demnächst hier in kleinen Clips zu sehen und zu hören!
         
We met Xu Zuowei in July 2007 at the Documenta Art Fair in Kassel, Germany. Chinese artist Ai Weiwei invited 1001 Chinese to be part of his "Fairy Tale"-Project. Zuowei was one of them!
We spent some time together and he told us about his future plans. He wants to leave China. He applied for study at four Australian Universities, one said Yes and now he is busy with English language tests he has to pass. And is waiting for his visa from Beijing. If everything turns out lucky he will be in Australia in May.
What he thinks about life, future and miracles coming true … you will be able to hear and watch it here on this site pretty soon! 
Sergey Nagaev hat uns gerade eine Mail geschickt, in der er uns seine Gedanken über unseren Film und was er bei ihm bewirkt hat, mitteilt. Wir finden, er trifft den Nagel auf den Kopf und wir hätten es nicht besser ausdrücken können, warum wir tun was wir tun. Lese hier:   Sergey Nagaev recently sent us an e-mail sharing his thoughts about our film and what effect it had on him. We think he hit the bull's-eye and we couldn't have expressed it better why we're doing what we're doing. Read here:
“… You forgot about people. I do not know about all but I have been changed by this film and about.
I was an ordinary engeneer who lives in ordinary small city. I have never think about travel to other countries before. Calexico was just a sounds or pictures, other countries were just a TV-news-picture or pictures from magazines or from internet sites. People were just an lines of e-mail messages. filmmaking was just a something far, far away. It was in the past.
And now Calexico is a memories about columbia halle show in my mind. and now I know - they are :-). I have seen other countries with my own eyes, I have seen mediterrian sea, tegel and U-Bahn, yards and imbiss, passionkirche and potsdammerplatz and much more. And I know - it is not a pictures or stories - it is a part of the world. the same part as my city or my work. and i belive it becouse i saw it. :-) I was a guest and I was a host too. And I have never think that other people interested in me or my life and my opinions about something. I was a little bit closed. Now I know other people the same as I. And now I am much more free. I know I can travel anywhere. I know I can talk with other people in my broken english and they understand me. And world is much more bigger than i think before. It is looking funny but it it a very important. I am trying to say "for me film's achievment is not only film as film but also changes of people involved in film". it is hard to explain but world has been changed not for whole world but for people who were involved in process of shooting and making film. And I sure you Dagie and Khani have been changed too.“