Four Journeys

The documentary is a feat of family-therapy-as-art that veers in tone from confrontational to affectionate, but remains engagingly audience-friendly even at its most intimate.
– Variety

As the second-born child during the Chinese one-child policy, director Louis Hothothot was illegal for a while. In his film Four Journeys the Chinese-Dutch filmer exposes family traumas by going back to China and interviewing his parents and his sister. A painful history of Mao’s China.

NOTE: Pieter van Huystee, the producer of the film will be present at the post-screening discussion. This film contains brief nudity. Viewers discretion advised.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Louis Hothothot is a film, video artist, graphic designer and art critic reviewer. His cinematic language research combines graphic design, video art, animation and performance. Louis Hothothot regularly shows his art pieces in cinema, film festivals, museums, and theaters, such as EYE Film Museum, Dansmakers, Leiden Shorts, Cinemasia and the Oostblok Theater, Van Abbemuseum and so on.

REVIEWS

• ‘Four Journeys’ Review: Chinese Siblings Consider the Long Shadow of the One-Child Policy in a Highly Personal Doc – Variety
• ‘Four Journeys’: IDFA Review (opening film) – ScreenDaily