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Chinese Portrait (2018)

Chinese Portrait (2018)

Documentary
Release Date: 2018, October 6
Directors: Wang Xiaoshuai
Countries: China, France, Hong Kong
Production: WXS Productions, Dongchun Films (Beijing) Co., Chinese Shadows

Overview:

Shot over the course of ten years on both film and video, the film consists of a series of carefully composed tableaux of people and environments. Pedestrians shuffle across a bustling Beijing street, steelworkers linger outside a deserted factory, tourists laugh and scamper across a crowded beach, worshippers kneel to pray in a remote village. With a painterly eye for composition, Wang captures China as he sees it, calling to a temporary halt a land in a constant state of change.

Keywords:

china city country contrast modern china people