‘Love and…’ is Zhang Lu’s cinematic experiment, consists of the four episodic chapters. This four-chapter film starts off with the first chapter ‘Love’, which is a film-within-the-film, showing a black and white screen of a girl visiting her grandfather in hospital. After shooting this scene, a film crew member in a lighting team argues with his director and walks out. In the second chapter ‘Film’, scenes in the first chapter are replayed, but without sounds. The third chapter involves multiple films within the film, Lu used absent of a soundtrack again. The final chapter is a great variation of the first chapter, with the actors’ absence from the scene, but only the exact dialogue can be heard. The film resolves itself as an exploration of dualities: colour and black and white, love and madness, acting and being, presence and absence.
A 2014 documentary film, ‘Non-Fiction Diary’ features Korean society in the mid-1990’s when the economy rose quickly and people’s standards of living rose after the political change from military government to civilian government. The film kicks off with a case of Jijon Clan, a group of seven young men from poor rural park of Korea who murdered five people who were targeted by the clan as the rich. After exploring their confused and contradictory motivations, the film turns to other disasters of the period – the collapse of the Seongsu Bridge and Sampoong Shopping Mall in seoul, in which many were killed. By looking back to those incidents in the 1990’s, the film discusses negligence in a newly democratic society in depth.