Trinity

In Trinity, Dalian-based artist Mowen Wang explores the threshold between two worlds — the living and the dead — through an interesting interplay between documentary and fiction, and between the narrative and the visual, suggesting the healing quality of the unconscious narrative. Paying a visit to the neighborhood of her mother, who had passed away six years before, the filmmaker comes upon a certain fortune-teller. While displaying the personal feelings of a daughter facing the absence of her mother, the work also delicately illustrates the rigid relationships of a nuclear family living in contemporary China and the moment they thaw. (Ann Arbor Film Festival)