New Generation: I Am Crazy About Intangible Cultural Heritage

In the urban jungle built by pixels and traffic, Chen Xu is a skilled dream catcher, good at packaging all ancient and heavy things into ever-changing visual candies. A funeral-like phone call dragged him back to his hometown, which was about to be submerged by the torrent of the times. In my hometown town, the dragon kiln will be extinguished. Grandfather Chen Shouzhuo, the last guardian of exquisite glaze, is like a silent root sculpture, sticking to the workshop of dust and time. Between ancestors and grandchildren, there is a deep rift between tradition and modernity - the "sense of network" and "flow" that Chen Xu believed in are vulnerable to his grandfather's craftsman philosophy of "earth, fire and hands". Until Chen Xu put down the plan, picked up the camera, and began to truly "see": he saw how the calloused hands talked with the soil, saw how the kiln fire breathed during the thirty-six hours of waiting, and saw how the cracks in the ice bloomed in the firelight at the moment the kiln was opened to freeze the starlight of the universe. A silent documentary short film "Hand·Fire" unexpectedly became a glimmer of light connecting two worlds. The visit of independent designer Su Qing brought a demanding and precious order, and also brought the only opportunity to save the workshop. The burden of fifty artifacts and the unfinished inheritance of three generations all fell on the shoulders of the grandfather and grandson who had just ended their confrontation. Can Chen Xu truly touch the soul of craftsmanship in the tempering of earth and fire? And can the stubborn grandfather slightly open the kiln door to this era that is both unfamiliar and familiar to him?