29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

24. 10.–2. 11. 2025
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Masterclass: Bing Wang

Masterclass: Bing Wang

Wang Bing / Czech Republic / 2014 / 120 min.


synopsis

The Chinese director, Wang Bing, is one of the pivotal figures of world documentary film. His nine-hour film Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2003) received the Grand Prix at the Marseille Festival of Documentary Film, his Fengming made an appearance in Cannes and Toronto in 2007, and another of his documentaries, Crude Oil (2008),premiered at the Rotterdam festival. His work is characterised by many-hour-long observations of everyday moments in a selected environment, from factories or mines to a mental asylum. He is among the authors included in the Complete Letters project presenting his filmmaking method also in his Master Class.

more about film

director: Wang Bing
cast: Wang Bing, Marek Hovorka

Film at festival

festival edition:2014
section:Masterclass
language:Czech, Chinese
subtitles:English
colour:Colour

Info

director:Wang Bing
original title:Masterclass: Bing Wang
country:Czech Republic
year:2014
running time:120 min.

Festival partners

Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
Creative Europe Media
GEMO
Česká televize
Český rozhlas
Aktuálně.cz
Respekt
Dafilms

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