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to tell stories and pride of no stuttering. Lawrence wishes to infuse more
His role of director in Beijing Television power into his output. Therefore he high-
and journalist also trained him to be an lights narratives and emotions, and resists
independent video maker with clear logic. pursuit of popularity and impression with
He once got a chance to do voice acting no morality limit. “My video may take
for the first Chinese ads for Apple Watch. audiences 10 minutes or even 20, or it can
Wandering along his career path, he de- be a short 5-min travel vlog. I do no voice-
veloped a piety and desire for film, wish- over and only borrow some film lines.
ing to control the scene tempo and direc- Going back to the original filming sites can
tion by himself. meet the expectation that audiences hold
In his journalist days, he used before clicking the play button.” In the
“non-normal shooting” to expose social winter before the pandemic, he visited
conflicts and negative emotions, using a Hokkaido and brought back in his video
prying posture to stimulate the voyeuris- the beautiful scenery from Love Letter, a
tic nature of humankind. Yet he didn’t film made by Shunji Iwai. “Well, those who
forget to seek out his next destination. have really watched the film must know
“This didn’t seem like what I want to do. my expression. They may recall their
Of course, journalists have to shoot feeling when they watched the film and
those unknown sides. But there are many re-treasure that touching state of mind.”
tender things in the world.” Lawrence’s
favorite film director is Hirokazu Koree-
da. “Hirokazu once also wandered in
gray zones when he made TV documen-
taries. After becoming a director, he
used another perspective to view the
world. His films based on real stories
like Shoplifters and Like Father Like Son
[1] In 2018, the bullet screen website Bilibili held the first BILIBILI
show the contradictions of human na-
POWER UP ceremony to reward 100 content creators selected based
ture. These films reinterpret social news
on influence and reputation. The yearly event is still going on. Xiaoqi
and cure me.” was selected in the BILIBILI UP AND CAT 2021.
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