Yi Torch Festival Documentary: A Circle of Yi Women Dancing With Fire

The same scene as Case 03, but with the skirts' horizontal red and yellow embroidered bands, the disk silver crown with hanging bells and the black cotton jacket with diagonal collar and embroidered sleeves all written in detail. Image 8 of Zhao Yifan's set.

A god's-eye view of thousands of torches winding into a river of fire along a black ridge, with darkness covering seventy percent of the frame and an old man shielding a flame and a child looking up in the foreground. Tucks micro stories into a macro scene. Image 11 of Zhao Yifan's set.

A medium close-up of a woman caught mid-spin facing the camera, half her face warm orange and half in shadow, her silver headdress trailing a white arc of light. A study in split lighting plus motion trails. Image 2 of Zhao Yifan's Yi Torch Festival set.