Flowers In A Mirror. Suigetsu

During my study at the Central Academy of Fine Arts the story of Joris Ivens and "How Yukong moved the mountains" deeply intrigued me. First of all I identified myself with him as a Dutch documentary artist living and working in China. Like him, I had the ambitious desire to bridge the gap of incomprehension that separates people in the West from here. Maybe because of that, I felt sorry for him. Instinctively I saw that the story of Ivens and Yukong offered a deeper, fundamental way to understand China a bit better, although I had no idea how. The first question I asked myself was simple:what to think of Joris Ivens and his relationship with China now? Was he a propagandist or a naive man who didn't realize the situation he was in, and if so, why not? How come he didn't see the second'reality', should he have seen it? When we look at "How Yukong moved the mountains" knowing what we know now, what do we see? What can we learn from it when looking at the present society?...