Chinese Portrait

Chinese Portrait (2018)

我的镜头

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.

Date of release
2018-10-06
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 19m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Wang Xiaoshuai

Interesting facts

Chinese Portrait is a 2018 documentary film directed by Wang Xiaoshuai. It was shot over ten years in the urban east and the rural northwest of China. It is Wang's first full-length documentary.

Production

Chinese Portrait was filmed over seven years, starting in 2009, in a variety of location in eastern and northwestern China, including Beijing, Shanghai, Ningxia, and Qinghai. It was directed by Wang Xiaoshuai, produced by Isabelle Glachant and Xuan Liu, and executive produced by Qian Yini, with cinematography by Wu Di, Zeng Hui, Zeng Jian, and Piao Xinghai, sound mixing by Mikaël Barre, and editing and sound design by Valerie Loiseleux.

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