Push the door of the Children's Hospital, the "small world" that the seven directors saw

Elephant News reporter Zhao Dan/Wenwen Interviers Photo Confession

Opening the door, a group of boys and girls are playing, all of them are a bald head. Doctors quietly told Sea Venus that leukemia was the lightest among these sick children. After walking out of the door, he saw the parents and children sitting in the staircase colorful clothes, the white coat that shuttled in the corridor ward ... There was no expected depression atmosphere, which surprised and relieved the Hai Jinxing who went to step on.

Hai Venus is the director of the current documentary "The Place of Elephant Elephant". He led the six female directors to squat in Henan Children's Hospital for half a year. He took out the sincerity of not just selling misery and not only talking about the disease, but also paying attention to the sincerity of the thousands of worlds behind children's medical treatment. They care about children, parents and doctors. In addition to tormenting and worrying stories, it is more of cure, warmth, and growth.

"Good films are human nature. Perhaps in this environment of hospitals, real human nature will be more obvious, which is why we choose to shoot medical themes." Hai Jinxing said.

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The 12 -year -old Ziyun came to the hospital because of stomach pain. In the bustling emergency department, the director Zhao Yan saw her at a glance.

This is a beautiful little girl, but to Zhao Yan's surprise, unlike other children, "there is no light in her eyes", empty and dim, as if everything around him has nothing to do with herself. Ziyun was set up by grandma and aunt to the emergency department at that time. She did not eat for a week. She had a headache to hit the wall. What she wanted to eat and vomited, she was so weak that she could not look up.

Zhao Yan, who was the first mother, sensitively captured the difference in Ziyun.

In the subsequent exchanges, she learned that Ziyun's mother died early, her father reorganized the family, and had other children to protect, so she had always lived with her grandma.

(Ziyun does not love to communicate with others)

Ziyun was admitted to the hospital. In the subsequent examination, everyone was shocked that she was confirmed to be diagnosed with a moderate depression and medium anxiety. Zhao Yan understood that the girl who was only twelve -year -old in front of her eyes always looked at a place silently, and seeing the children in the same ward interacting with their mothers would look thoughtful.

(Ziyun smiled happily when he was together with his father)

How to open this precocious and sensitive child? Zhao Yan and his friends simply put the shooting aside first, focusing on companionship. They told Ziyun to tell stories, compile all kinds of tricks, and even combed Ziyun's hair in a hurry. Ziyun's father also came to the hospital. In the restaurant, the photographer caught, and Ziyun smiled happily when he looked at his father. On the 12th birthday of Ziyun, everyone gave her a birthday party in the ward. Zhao Yan noticed that Ziyun would share the balloon and cake to the children in the same ward -she began to open her inner corner.

Later, one year after Ziyun was discharged from the hospital, Zhao Yan visited her and learned that Dad was transferred to Ziyun, so that Ziyun could go home every day. During the New Year of the lunar calendar in 2022, Zhao Yan and Ziyun chatted. Ziyun suddenly said that he was interested in documentary work, so they made an agreement, "She is 14 years old to study, and I will continue to make documentary. After ten years, I will do it. After ten years, I will do it. Ten years later The two of us can work together. "

The 7 -year -old Wu Youran and the 8 -year -old Feng Bohan impressed the diversity director Hu Jiurong.

(It is a girl who loves beauty and strong)

Xiaoyan in front of the camera, a playful braid, is distressing that the little girl found that she had leukemia and lived in the first half of the year. The mother took it to disinfect the control of the intravenous vein. The sudden pain prompted her small feet to kick, and the cry of the cry at that moment teared the hearts of the audience outside the screen. However, this is a process that children want to cure. After the pain, the young one quickly recovered the lively and cute side, and also sang "Juvenile" in the ward.

It is a beautiful girl. In the ward, she would ask her mother to put on her beautiful clothes for herself, and her hair would also be cleaned in time. Mom often washed her hair in the ward and combed her hair. However, with chemotherapy, the leisurely love of beauty has to face the impact of hair loss, and the dilemma of shaving into a small bald head.

Hu Jiurong remembers the day when he was cut. She was lying on the bed and wrapped in a quilt without a word. Her mother brought porridge, she just didn't drink, even if she put sugar. Mom found a small yellow hat for Youban, whether it was inspection or infusion, she would wear it.

Unlike leisurely with the delicate and sensitive characteristics of girls, Feng Bohan is a little carefree man.

For the first time, Hu Jiurong saw that he was set up in the "Sunshine Class" set up in the hospital. He wore a nose and kept asking the teacher to ask the teacher. The arrival of the director's uninvited guest also made him very excited.

"He invited me to enter the ward and put on all the Ultraman toys to introduce me for nearly half an hour. I am curious how he can still maintain such a vigorousness when he can't eat for decades. The vitality. Later, I saw his father, and his optimism was in the same vein. "Hu Jiurong recalled.

(Children are curious about the "guys" in the hands of the crew)

In addition to Ziyun, You Shi, and Feng Bohan, "Where the Elephant Out of the Elephant" also records many children. The directors have seen the little boy who has been resurrected by the second blood and the second blood. You guys, I have seen the small naughty tone of the laundry liquid of swallowing silver and swallowing glass beads. When I saw the two days after birth, I was diagnosed with a babies with a high degree of malignant neuroblastoma ...

What are the current situation of these children? The eggs at the end of each episode of the documentary will release the recent situation of the little protagonist. For example, the hair grows, and Ziyun returns to the campus ... The changes of the children also let the audience hold down. grown ups

The documentary "The Place of Elephant Out of Elephant" tells the story of family raising stories in the pediatrics. In the "catastrophe" of this disease, it is more profound than the disease. The chief director Hai Jinxing said that the child is actually a mirror of an adult, and he sees the fragility, anxiety, tenacity, and so on. Not only are children growing up, adults are also growing. Therefore, the camera team also took the lens to parents and doctors. The directors even gained growth.

Hai Venus has always remembered a dad who is honest. His child was seriously born a few days after birth, so he took it to Zhengzhou for treatment. The wife is confinement at home.

The doctor bluntly said that the child's condition was very bad, and he needed a lot of costs and risks. Hai Venus remembers that the first reaction of this dad is to treat the child, no matter how much it costs. "He came out of the doctor's office and called to borrow money. Maybe the money may not be borrowed, and a person squatted in the corner and cried." This scene made Hai Jinxing, who was also a father, was quite sad. Later, the father returned to his hometown to go through the formalities and frowned in the car, but the moment he saw his wife, he became very calm. "The first sentence of his daughter -in -law was to ask the child how it was. He was calm and comforted his wife to say that the child was okay. He was discharged in a few days and asked her to confine with peace of mind." Hai Venus recalled that the dad's performance made follow The director of the visit was very appreciated, "I feel that he can carry things in particular, and a woman is lucky to marry a husband like such a husband."

It is very regrettable that this young life has not been kept in the end, but the father's firmness when he faced the doctor, the helpless cry when he could not borrow money, and the calmness of his wife's calmness, all deeply moved the director group.

The documentary also records a story of a child with autism.

This child's mother was originally a housewife, but in the process of accompanying the child to cure and growing up, it later opened a rehabilitation institution for children with autism, so that the director group was "just for the mother."

The sixth episode of the documentary is mainly about doctors. After the thought of Hai Venus, in addition to the cure of pediatricians, it is more to take on the role of psychological guidance. Children's illness is unspeakable for each family. Parents are often prone to calmness regardless of the size of the disease.

He remembers a small detail. Once he went to the doctor and patient's office, the person in charge told him that he would deal with large and small problems every day. He did not dare to put glass products on the desktop. He was worried that the parents who reflected the problem would have irrational moves. "In fact, many problems are caused by lack of communication, and our documentary may play the role of bridge."

Hai Venus revealed that the film crew was squatting in the hospital and found that the emergency department every night was from Wuyang Wayang. In addition to conventional colds and fever, most of them are eaten with foreign matter and injury. In particular, children have eaten various foreign matter, including masks, marbles, batteries ... Once, the film crew also encountered a child with peanut rice card throat. In the face of various emergencies and anxious parents, doctors need to be patient and professional. Children need to have the ability to respond quickly in the critical situation. Often at this time, parents' endurance will be lower, so they also test doctors.

"Good films are human nature. Perhaps in this environment of hospitals, real human nature will be more obvious, which is why we choose to shoot medical themes." Hai Jinxing said that the documentary was originally named "Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da Da" Da Da Da Da Da Da "Da Da" "Pediatrics", because everyone mentioned that pediatrics always say pediatrics, but when they enter the children's hospital, they will find that pediatrics can reflect the thousands of worlds, hoping that the film will make the audience feel the power of love and growth.

Dialogue Director Hai Venus: This is the hardest film I have ever made

(General Director Hai Venus)

Hai Venus, the director of the documentary "The Place of Elephant Elephant", is from Henan. Later, he went to Beijing to develop. Representative works include "Chu Han", "City 24 Hours", "Middle Plains", "Life There are plays", etc. This is his first. Do a documentary related to children at a time.

On June 23, Zhengzhou, Henan, Elephant News Dialogue Hai Venus:

Elephant News: There are still several episodes to be broadcast. Please introduce the respective themes of the entire documentary, how to determine the theme, what do you want to express through these themes?

Hainan Venus: There are six episodes of the documentary "Where Elephant Out of the Elephant". In the first episode, we are concerned about the children of the two hematological tumor ward. I hope to give adults more thinking through the attitude of the child to the disease; Pay attention to the importance of parenting to children and the family reasons behind the child's illness; the third episode through the story of a autistic child, telling the common growth of parents and children in the process of confrontation; The story of the grandmother who takes care of the child in the hospital, analyzes the phenomenon of the elderly with the baby, and the problems of parents in family education; the fifth episode is to interpret what the child's birth is to a family through the story of the two premature infant families. Finally One episode is about the guardian of pediatricians and how they face anxious parents.

We also hope to complete our overall expression through these six episodes -taking children's medical treatment as the window, reflecting the world of contemporary childcare and children behind children's medical care.

Elephant News: You said in your note, "Parents who have not been to the Children's Hospital late at night are not enough to talk about life." The six diversity directors are both women, and the four are mothers. Putting off the director's identity, the role of parents, and the delicate and toughness of the female director, what will it bring to this film? Hainan Venus: The identity of female directors will make them more affinity and easier to be recognized when facing children and parents. In addition, for a documentary director, the capture of details is crucial, and when women face the subject matter such as children's medical care, it is easier to resonate with children. detail. At the same time, the film will be more temperature.

Elephant News: Children are the easiest to touch people's hearts, especially children with sickness. Do you have an emotional collapse when shooting, and can't bear to see the child's suffering? How to overcome this psychology?

Hai Venus: There will be many times, especially for those who have been parents, and they are not allowed to suffer. But for documentary directors, the most important thing is objective and calm. This will be a bit similar to a doctor. We will always remind ourselves not to bring our subjective emotions to work. Although this process is difficult, it will be difficult to work. We will continue to adjust until we gradually adapt.

Elephant News: In contact with these sick children, what are the rewards and growth of the directors.

Haijin Star: I think the most important point is that it will not require too much for children. The child's health and happiness are the most important. In addition, the most need for children is not the material, but the high -quality companionship of parents.

(Diversity director Zhao Yan is filming)

Elephant News: I believe that the crew has taken a lot of materials, and some are not used in the film. What are the reasons for discarding and reserving?

Hainan Venus: We took nearly 600 hours of materials in total, and only two and a half hours were finally used in the film. In terms of choosing stories, we hope that we choose not only the story of cure, nor the sell The tragic story is not to earn the tears of the audience. Instead, behind these stories, you can see the family views and parenting views of many Chinese people, which can be left to the audience more thinking. This is also the most important criterion for us to choose a story.

Elephant News: The documentary "Place of Elephant Elephant" presents children's medical themes with small incisions. Each episode of one angle, focusing on various issues, what are the most hoped to bring the audience as a director? What philosophy does it pass?

Hai Venus: For the positioning of this film, we don't want it to be a film about cure. Children's hospitals are the epitome of the status quo of Chinese families and parenting. Children's disease will involve the entire family. Behind the child's illness, it may be a sick family. It may be a sense of conceptual consciousness that needs to be adjusted. In the process of fighting against the disease, children, parents, and pediatricians need to face their own problems and finally achieve different degrees of growth. How can we go to a better future with our children? This is the answer we want to find. Just like our propaganda words, feel the power of love and growth in the children's hospital.

Elephant News: You said in your notes that "Where Elephant Out of the Elephant" is the most difficult film you feel. What is the reason?

Hainan Venus: I think the most difficult thing is to get the trust of the shooting object. When children are sick, parents will be very anxious. At this time, no one is willing to be photographed. How to let parents and children accept us. It's difficult. At the same time, every day is experiencing life and death in the process of shooting. We need to constantly adjust ourselves. This is also a huge test for each of us.

Elephant News: The film is currently on the air. What are you most pleased to see the audience feedback?

Hai Venus: When the audience said to see the power in our film, warn themselves to cherish happiness, and reflect on whether they have to accompany their children with their intentions, it should be the most pleased.

Elephant News: In these 6 episodes, which episode or which character makes you feel the most?

Hai Jinxing: It should be Ziyun. Ziyun has been very melancholy before, and there is no light in his eyes, but at a moment, when Dad accompanied Ziyun to eat in the restaurant, we saw Ziyun laugh for the first time. Especially sunlight, at that moment I might never forget.

Elephant News: Have you ever made a lot of documentary, what are the regrets of this film? Satisfied point?

Haijinxing: Unfortunately, due to the restrictions of the shooting cycle, some stories are not deep enough to be deep enough, and it seems thinner.

Satisfied is that our protagonist's acceptance and understanding of us can let us take their most authentic state and journey.

Elephant News: You are also a father, and have made documentary related to children's medical care. Can you say blessings to children?

Hai Venus: I hope that every child is healthy and happy.

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