#week 118

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Magic butterflies :3 

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Week 118 Knights

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We are thrilled to share the amazing works from two wonderful creators: @andzia267 & @nerdybidean! We hope you’ll enjoy this upcoming week and will help us support them by hitting that reblog button.

If you would also like us to share your original work, please use our tracking tag #spncreatorsdaily, so we can reblog them on Saturdays.

Please remember that you can participate in our followers celebration the week of August 16, and we wish you a lovely new week, as well!

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Week 118

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Here is week 118, folks. As always, thank you to these amazing authors who provide me with endless amounts of entertainment. You are all amazingly talented!

Readers-please make sure you show these authors some love! If you’d like to check out my previous posts, follow #rachel’s fanfic lists or search the tag on my blog. Happy reading!

How Do You Know? - @notanislander​

Champion - redheadedflame

Time of Peace - alliswell aka @alliswell21

Fifty Year's Worth - juststella aka @justajjfan

Incubus - alliswell aka @alliswell21 

See Right Through My Walls - @hpfanonezillion

If You See Light -  lesbianophelia aka @knittingbutch

On Borrowed Time - panskiss123

Up We Go - melchimaus

Get Physical - @twilightcakes

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Long Day’s Journey Into Night (地球最后的夜晚). dir. Bi Gan (毕赣). 2018.

Born in 1989, film director Bi Gan attended the Shanxi Institute of Media and majored in television production. Bi is best known for his 2015 film Kaili Blues (路边野餐), which won him several awards including Best New Film Director at The 52nd Golden Horse Awards and the Best first Feature Film Award at The 68th Locarno Film Festival. 

Long Day’s Journey Into Night stars actor Huang Jue (黄觉) as Luo Hongwu, who returns to Guizhou for his father’s funeral. There, he recalls the death of his friend Bai Mao twelve years prior. Through the investigation of this death, he becomes involved with former lover Wan Qiwen (Tang Wei), and his world begins to interweave dream, reality, past, and present.

Despite being an arthouse film, this movie was marketed as a mainstream romantic-comedy film. One of its campaigns was to time its December 31 release so that the final kissing scene occurred at midnight, prompting viewers to mirror the kiss of the protagonists. Long Day’s Journey Into Night took $37.9 million in China on its opening night, but was met with a lot of backlash as well as a sharp decline in box office numbers, as viewers were expecting a rom-com and felt horribly deceived. 

Long Day’s Journey Into Night won the Best Cinematography, Best Original Film Score, and Best Sound Effects categories at the 55th Golden Horse Awards. 

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Thank you so much to @andzia267 & @nerdybidean for giving us the opportunity to share their amazing edits, pieces of fanart, and fanvids with everyone! If you enjoyed their creations & want to keep an eye on their future work, please consider giving them a follow.

And just some friendly reminders:

Please consider using our tracking tag, #spncreatorsdaily, if you would like us to reblog your original work on Saturdays.

We will also be hosting our followers celebration the week of August 16 that is open to all creators in our fandom! Hope you will join us in the fun!

We wish you all of you a restful & lovely weekend!

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Oxhide (牛皮) dir. Liu Jiayin (刘伽茵). 2005.

Liu Jiayin wrote and directed her debut film Oxhide at the age of 23 while working on her Master's degree in Film at Beijing Film Academy. Capturing the daily life of a working-class family living together in a 50 square meter apartment, Oxhide is notoriously low budget, with Liu's own parents as lead actors. The film is also known for its cinematographic minimalism – it consists of 23 static shots in a single location, the longest of which lasts half an hour. Shot on the narrow screen of a DV camera, some events occur entirely off screen, with only the actor’s voices to fill the scene. 

Oxhide was premiered at the 2005 Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI and Caligari Film Award. Oxhide II, a sequel also directed by Liu, premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.

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Nothing Happened Today No. 2 (今天无事发生2号) by Li Ming (李明). 2012.

Li Ming is a Chinese artist based mainly in Beijing and Shanghai. His practice involves words and concepts in conjunction with his own presence in space - he frequently appears in his own work - consistently questioning the role of the artist in relation to their artwork.

Nothing Happened Today No. 2 is a four-channel video installation - four separate clips are played simultaneously on individual monitors, creating a multi-perspectival display typical of Li’s work. The video shows Li repeating the message “nothing happened today” in various ways, even shouting the line in between segments of the recording. Nothing has been featured widely in multiple exhibitions, including ON | OFF: China’s Young Artists in Concept and Practice in 2013 at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA).

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