Director: Wu Ming
Producer: Xu Wei, Shu Kei
Executive Producer: Pang Ming
Cinematographer: Yang Shu
Editor: Qing Qing
Screenwriters: Pang Ming, Wu Ming
Music: Roland Dol
Principal Cast: Jia Hongshen, Ma Xiaoqing

Frozen is unique, even among independently produced Chinese films, for providing a rare look at the avant-garde art world of Beijing. A young performance artist decides to make his own suicide his last work of art. On the longest day of the year, he plans to melt a huge block of ice with his own body heat and to die of hypothermia. He calls this protest against the coldness of society "Funeral on Ice." This solemn, audacious drama is only partly fictitious according to the film maker, a prominent Sixth Generation director who hides behind the pseudonym "Wu Ming," or "no name," for fear of incurring the wrath of the Chinese authorities from whom he did not receive official permission to make the film. Shot in 1994, Frozen is based upon a similar performance staged by a member of a group of Nihilist artists in Beijing. When Wu Ming did finally clash with authorities over this and subsequent projects, he brought the film elements to Amsterdam where he obtained finishing funds in time to premiere the film at the Rotterdam Film Festival earlier this year.