Oxhide

The film is about a family of three living in Beijing. They make their living by making and selling bags out of oxhide. Business is not going well, and the tension in the house feeds on that. The director Liu Jiayin casts her own mother, her father and herself. So the actors are a real family while the story is fiction. Jia Huifen and Liu Zaiping appear in it. The account sits somewhere between documentary and fiction. Its subject is a household under pressure rather than an event. The work was made independently. Liu Jiayin’s Chinese film, a hundred and ten minutes long, was completed in 2006.