Man in the Well

  • Archive - Festival 34
  • Director: Hu Bo
  • China 2017
  • 16 minutes
  • Mandarin
  • Subtitles in English

This short film is screened togethrt with Elephant Sitting Still

Apocalypse. Two starving kids find a dead body in the ruins...

Hu Bo was born in 1988 in China. Hu graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 2014 with a B.F.A. in directing and made two successful short films, Distant Father and Night Runner. In 2017 he participated in the FIRST Training Camp under the supervision of Béla Tarr, where he completed the short film Man in the Well. He has also written two novels, Huge Crack and Bullfrog, both published in 2017. Hu Bo took his own life soon after finishing An Elephant Sitting Still.


  • Director Hu Bo
  • Production Gao Yihan
  • Script Hu Bo
  • Cinematography Gao Yihan
  • Editing Hu Bo
  • Festivals Locarno
  • Actors Zhang Xiaoqian , Qu Yiyi , Gao Tieguang
  • Source Rediance, Beijing,