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Ethnography Film Review: Voices From the Village—Theatre Troupe on the Road
Abstract
The ethnographic film Voices from the Village: Theatre Troupe on the Road is a 53-minute audiovisualethnomusicologytext. Directed by Chen Xulong, an independent scholar from Gansu Province, it was filmed over three years (2020–2023) to document the itinerant livelihood of multiple shadow theatre troupes in the Longzhong region of Gansu, China.
Framing shadow theatre music as a sonic practice embedded in local belief systems, the film reveals the interplay between musical behavior and the ethical order of agrarian society through oral narratives from Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) inheritors at different administrative levels. Its narrative design is grounded in the core content and cultural connotations of shadow theatre: centeringonfour key themes of theatre owner, theatre routes, inheritance, and perseverance, it constructs a six-dimensional audiovisual narrative model divided into six sections, namely theatre owner, theatre troupe, folk customs, performance, theatre routes, and inheritance. The film adopts desaturated black-and-white footage to distinguish the profane everyday space from the sacred ritual space. Employing audiovisual techniques including audio dissolve and sound-image parallel montage, it takes cross-troupe renditions of the traditional play Sitting in the State of Yue as its implicit narrative thread, highlighting the folk attribute of "entertaining both deities and humans" and the edifying function of shadow theatre. Furthermore, the film forms significant intertextuality with thedirectorscontemporaneous academic works. Awarded the Silver Prize (First Runner-Up) at the 3rd CMEFF Chinese Music Ethnography Biennial and accessioned into the permanent collection of the Chinese Ethnographic Museum, this work stands as a pivotal audiovisual text for academic research on Chinese shadow theatre ICH and the anthropology of art.
《民族志电影评论：
<乡音——行走的戏班>》
摘要
民族志电影《乡音——行走的戏班》，是由甘肃独立学者陈旭龙导演历时三年（2020-2023）在甘肃陇中地区记录多个皮影戏班社流动生存状态的音乐影像志文本，全片时长53分钟。
影片将皮影戏乐视为地方信仰体系中的声音实践，并通过不同层级传承人的口述，呈现音乐行为与农耕社会伦理秩序的互动。该片依据皮影戏所蕴含的核心内容与文化内涵进行了设置。从箱主、戏路、传承、坚守这几个主题出发。分为箱主、戏班、民俗、表演、戏路、传承六大板块，构建六维影像叙事模式；以去饱和度的黑白镜头区分现实空间与仪式空间；以声音叠化、声画平行蒙太奇等技法，将同一剧目《坐越国》的跨班社演绎作为隐性叙事线索，突出皮影戏“娱神娱人”的民俗属性和教化功能。影片也与导演同期学术著作形成了互文价值。该影片曾获第三届华语音乐影像志双年展（CMEFF）银奖，入选中国民族博物馆永久馆藏，是中国皮影戏非遗与艺术人类学研究的重要影像文本。
编辑：黄刘梓砚
审核：徐欣
