Synopsis
Some say that China is a fiction and it is indeed: The Middle Kingdom has always been and remains to this day the place of fantasies for the Western World. Wang Bing, Jia Zhang-Ke and Wang Xiaoshuai, the characters of this documentary, dare to do what those who preceded them had never tried before: search for reality through their movies. Using the work of three great directors from the same generation, those who came after the events of Tiananmen Square, this movie, which starts at the end and is edited like a puzzle, offers an exploration of what Chinese society is really like since the Beijing Spring.
Credits
Director (1)
Production and distribution (1)
- Executive Producer : Movie DA
Full credits (7)
- Executive Producers : Jean-Fabrice Barnault, Henry Notturno
- Director of Photography : Alain Mazars
- Music Composer : Jessica Mazars
- Editors : Alain Mazars, David Pujol
- Sound Recordist : Alain Mazars
- Sound Mixer : Alexandre Lorin
- Participants : Jia Zhang-Ke, Wang Bing, Wang Xiaoshuai
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Technical details
- Type : Short film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Portrait
- Themes : Cinema, Countries
- Production language : Chinese
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 2011
- Runtime : 59 min
- Production formats : HDV
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.77
- Audio format : Digital 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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