Synopsis
In others’ eyes, Zhang Xiaoqiang is a very ordinary person. He has no skills or bosom friends, and the girl he likes never notices him. One day, lamenting his meaningless life, he ran into a mysterious fortune-teller. Through the old man, Zhang Xiaoqiang learned that he would die decades later. In other words, no matter how hard he tried to seek death, he would not die. So he became bold and confident. What he dared not to do before became much easier. Just when he thought he would change his life and peak, he died unexpectedly of a mild cold. Later, in a conversation with the Grim Reaper, Zhang Xiaoqiang found out that the date of death he saw from the old man turned out to be an unexpected mistake.
Wang Rui
Born in Chongqing, China on June 23, 1986, graduated from the Film and Advertisement of China Academy of Art in 2012, and graduated from Graphic moving image at University of the Arts London in 2015.
Director's statement
The short film A STRANGE WINE POT is about an ordinary man who encountered an unusual event and thought he would be extraordinary, but fate played a joke on him. The film focuses on the meaning of life and the so-called scheduled date of death. It expresses the helplessness of fate and laments the insignificance of life. Life is short. Life is unpredictable. Life seems to be unreal, just like a dream. Therefore, the rhythm of the film is like a dream but also chaotic, full of uncertainties and unknown23
