‘6세대’ 카테고리

Abstract

Sixth Generation is a concept of time which succeeds the Fifth Generation and a very special word which characterizes contemporary Chinese cinema. The Sixth Generation means not only cinema directors following the Fifth Generation but also cinemas which maintain the Fifth Generation’s Avant Garde characteristics and carry very different diagram from the Fifth Generation. The characteristics of 6th Generation movies are as follows. First, They resist the socialist China. This is similar to the revolutionary 5th Generation who tried to look different from 1st to 4th Generation. However 6G is different from 5G in that they are present-oriented. While 5G describes about China based on old China, 6G about new China. Second, 6G uses wild aesthetics like piece by piece or incompleted narrations to talk about present China. This is because 6G try to remove the subjective view of 5G directors. They are trying to have an access to an objectivity by getting rid of any judgement or dramatic composition. This is why 6G cinemas are more like prose or poem rather than story. Third, even if 6G movies carry a form of documentary or fiction, they deal with non-fiction subject. They reflect personal lives in China which transforms themselves socialist people to general public as well as current Chinese reality in which capitalist space replaces socialist one. 6G movies are movies after 1990s. containing all those objective truth. 6G cinema is meaningful in that it succeed the 5G tradition and its Avant Garde characteristic which resist precedents in Chinese cinema.