Chinese Portrait (2018)

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.

Released Oct. 6, 2018 79 min None+

Genres: Documentary

Keywords: tmdb.china, tmdb.modern-china, tmdb.city-country-contrast, tmdb.people, mdblist.fresh, imdb.director, aspectratio.1-78-1

Watch Providers: Kanopy, OVID

Production Companies: WXS Productions, Dongchun Films (Beijing) Co., Chinese Shadows

Country: China
Production Countries: China, France, Hong Kong
Languages: Mandarin