Like many, throughout 2020 Chinese-born, US-based filmmaker Zhengfan Yang (Where Are You Going, IFFR 2016) looked closer at his immediate surroundings. From his apartment complex in Chicago, the filmmaker records ostensibly quotidian scenes: people walking, window cleaners, street sweepers; life viewed from inside a bubble. This seemingly safe bubble is soon overlayed by audio excerpts from local police radio. At a time when US law enforcement came under particular attack, the audio track reveals a more complex reality, without taking sides. Through the police response team radio communications, brief insights into various unconnected urban realities follow each other in quick succession: from absurd or seemingly trivial scenes, to violent eruptions. The contrasting visual and audio layers provide an exceptional personal reflection, during a simmering historical moment, in an exceptional year spent in isolation.

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影片讲述了一对处在敌对关系之中的父子的故事。父子二人都在耶路撒冷的希伯来大学工作，他们都是犹太法典的专家，而且都是颇有个性和怪癖的怪人。由于在对待荣誉和学术问题上，父子二人分歧过大，所以这两个学者之间产生了早已超越父子关系的抵牾。儿子是一个喜欢追名逐利的当代学者，而他的父亲却是一个非常严肃、非常守旧的古典派的学者。在父亲威严的外表下，他其实也是一个渴望得到认知和认同的人。父子俩的矛盾一直没有公开化和扩大化。但是，当以色列国家奖要颁发的时候——这是以色列国内奖励学者的最高奖项——父子俩的矛盾终于爆发了出来，这是一出令人苦恼而且没有结果的对抗。