Living Spirit is a poetic documentary guided by the traditional crafts of the Bai people, an ethnic minority group in Yunnan, China. The film explores how handcraft carries bodily memory, feminine knowledge, and local spirituality — not through conventional documentary form, but through poetic imagery and a non-linear narrative that delicately reveals the intimate relationships between people and materials, language and hands, nature and memory.

万物有灵是一部以白族非遗工艺为线索的诗意影像作品，探索手工艺中所承载的身体记忆、女性技艺与在地文化。
工艺不只是工艺——它是一种日常的精神延续，也是身体的叙事方式；在影像中，它作为象征性物件与文化符号，以更自由的方式被观看与理解。





Credit:Directors & Post Production: CJ Yang
Cinemtographer:  Xin Wang
Producer & Lead Curator: Jingyi Tong
Music: Moni Zhang
Casts & Voice: Yiran  
Supporting Organization: Dali TV Network
Organizer: YI CRAFTS 怡手作, LIURAN 六然文化



Living Spirits (the film) premiered as the opening piece of the Living Spirits group exhibition during London Craft Week 2025.

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