Chinese Portrait

Chinese Portrait — Plot

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.

• Release date
• October 6, 2018
• Runtime
• 79 min
• Genres
• Documentary
• Director
• Wang Xiaoshuai