A young performance artist decides to make his own suicide his last work of art. On the longest day of the year, he plans to melt a huge block of ice with his own body heat and die of hypothermia. He calls this protest against the coldness of society "Funeral on Ice." Based on a true story.
Acting
Jia Hongsheng's hollow-eyed stillness — you can't look away.
Direction
Wang Xiaoshuai's patient, unblinking observation of a man disappearing.
Director
Wang Xiaoshuai
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jia Hongsheng struggled with mental health and addiction in real life, making his performance here devastatingly meta.
Shot illegally as 'The Days' to evade Chinese censorship, this was part of the Sixth Generation's underground rebellion against state-approved cinema.
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