Sixth-generation Director's Aesthetic Pursuit And Direction

A special culture actuality of the Chinese movie in a hundred years history is a generation compartmentalizing of film directors. However, the sixth generation, from emerges to the naming and from art exploration to development, experienced a hard process actually. The thesis is divided into three parts: the emerging and the naming of the sixth generation, the esthetics pursuance and the development of the sixth generation, and summarizes the sixth generation systematically.The sixth generation appeared in the beginning of 90's. By summarizing the community factors, like theory determination, vanguard exploration and the photography community and so on, and taking a few key words, such as the time conception, the representative personage and their works, the esthetics pursuance etc, as standard, we can separate the sixth generation from such names as the cainozoic generation and the past-fifth generation out, and fix the basic points of the thesis.The esthetics pursuance of the sixth generation is the emphasis of the thesis, mainly incarnating the innovation of their theme selection, narrative strategy and image style, In the aspect of the theme selection, the sixth generation exhibits the metropolis fragment and the autoecious person through angles of the modern rock-and-roll, the city feeling and the fringe citizen, avoiding the theme of the fifth generation and the traditional film esthetics points, pays attention to the sub-culture of city. On the artistic path, they adopt an attitude which is immediately contact with the true life and enriched in the realism of matter and art modality. In the aspect of the narrative strategy, they choose the counter-Hollywood narrative structure, construct the narrative labyrinth through the personal and moodily technique. So their films present a postmodern narrative mode with an indeterminate, rupture and skip character. In the aspect of image style, they pursue the method of expression that video-building is more importantthan image-building, and pursue ontology of the image which is branded the television advertisements and MTV. Furthermore, the fragile, indeterminate and jumping character of the image is enlarged and enhanced continuously. In a word, the theme selection, the narrative strategy and the image style integrates as a whole, show the pursuance of the sixth generation.In the aspect of producing and publication, the sixth generation is similar with the independent movie in United States. Therefore, we can investigate the pursuance of the sixth generation through contrasting both of them, generalizing to three aspects: From the independent operation head for system;Maintains consistent art standpoint;Bases the native place, contains the populace. It is important for the future of the Chinese movie to investigate the pursuance of the sixth generation.