“The idea of the movie was born when I fell accidentally on Michael Nash’s photo, Warsaw 1946. I wanted to reproduce the device to photograph characters against various backgrounds. It is a practice still very popular in China. I wanted an uncluttered movie, between fiction and documentary, reality and dream, modern civilization and traditional habits, Chinese ideology and Tibetan beliefs. Today’s world is complex, conflicts are everywhere, including Tibet, but I did not want to offer a positive or negative judgment, I just wanted to show today’s changes, in their sometimes unknown reality.”