Chang'an Boulevard

Chang'an Boulevard (2012)

北京：長安街

Shot in one-minute increments, Ai's video obsessively documents daily life along Chang'an Boulevard, a thriving road that bisects the capital city along its east-west axis. ("Chang'an" literally means "long peace.") Ai and his team of videographers stopped at 50-meter intervals to record each fixed shot. The result is an impassive yet revelatory videologue that charts the blood flow of Beijing through its supermodern heart to its impoverished extremities.

Date of release
2012-01-26
Runtime
10h 13m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Ai Weiwei

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