Dong (2006)

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Dong is a 2006 documentary film by Chinese director, Jia Zhangke. The film follows the artist and actor Liu Xiaodong as he invites Jia to film him while he paints a group of labourers near the Three Gorges Dam and later a group of women in Bangkok. The film was produced and distributed by Jia's own production company, Xstream Pictures, based out of Hong Kong and Beijing.

Production

Jia Zhangke was invited by his friend, painter Liu Xiaodong at first to visit the Three Gorges Region located in South-east of China together, planning to film a documentary for the progress of his new painting series that mainly focuses on the demolition workers in that area and then towards Bangkok to paint female bar workers.

After their arrival, Jia decided to film another fictional film as well due to his shock of the poverty circumstances in the area, and this decision during their journey then successfully form two films in parallels, the documentary Dong and the fictional film Still Life.

Jia wrote the script for Still Life in three days in his hotel, and cast his cousin Han Sanming as a coal miner.

One of Liu’s worker model accidentally died during the process of filming, Liu and Jia then visited this worker’s family, gave photographs and gifts to his children.

Two films shared some similar footage and also the same protagonist under Jia’s exploration of the setting China Fengjie.

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