 Most notable among these were cinematographer Yu Lik-wai ("The World", "Platform", "Unknown Pleasures", "Xiao Wu"), composer Lim Giong ("Useless", "Dong", "The World") and editor Kong Jinglei ("Platform", "The World").Unlike many of his contemporaries (and indeed unlike many of Jia's own films), "Still Life" was approved by the Chinese Film Bureau, SARFT, and was co-produced by the state-operated Shanghai Film Studio.Jia himself suggested that this support was due to the fact that "[t]he impact of the Three Gorges project is phenomenal.