The Shadow Play Artist

The shadow play artist drawn from Gaoya village, Jingchuan county, Pingliang city, Gansu province, a village which is known as shadow play. There are several traditional actors in the village, they saw the shadow play, learned it and performed it since their childhood. They witnessed the changes of The Times to shadow play, one of a kind of old traditional folk art. The shadow play artist is described the group of folk artists assist to performe the shadow play,but at the same time, they have to admit that as the changes of time, the fact is that shadow play is gradually marginalized.The shadow play artist is with Wu Zhaoxue, a shadow play actor and his Shadow play team as a material. Tells us the story of Wu Zhaoxue’s almost fifty years performance life. Learning performance skills from his teacher, buying the props and finally setting up hid own team to play around the village. He never left the puppets, and never too old to paly.Besides of this, the documentary also records the performance status of shadow play team of Gaoya village and shows this old traditional folk art’s difficult circumstances in today’s society.