Li Wen at East Lake

As with everything in life the same goes for East Lake a threatened lake near the expanding mega city of Wuhan You can get worked up about it and get involved or you can think it wont affect me Fortunately theres the intriguing new film by Li Luo which brings to an end these doubts East Lake Dong Hu is a scenic area in the city of Wuhan threatened by new amusement parks highrises and even an airport East Lake is getting smaller and smaller but its bigger and bigger in my memory wrote a friend to the Canadabased Chinese filmmaker Li Luo as a result of the development In a lucid way the film investigates how the lake is linked to the people leading to reflection on identity and survival in todays China The form is varied and free Li uses documentary as well as fictional style elements and often an ironic mixture of both iffrcom