A l’Ouest des Rails
- ORIGINAL LANGUAGE ZH
- SUBTITLES FR
- 2003
- Duration 550
Free without reservation
Introducing
La projection aura lieu en salle 3. La salle sera accessible durant la séance.
Synopsis
A Shenyang, dans la Chine profonde, Tie Xi est un gigantesque complexe industriel né au temps de l’occupation japonaise. Il a ensuite prospéré jusqu’à compter un million d’ouvriers avant 1990. Wang Bing a filmé de 1999 à 2001 la lente agonie des usines et des hommes dans l’effondrement final d’un système obsolète.
Free without reservation
Introducing
La projection aura lieu en salle 3. La salle sera accessible durant la séance.
Synopsis
A Shenyang, dans la Chine profonde, Tie Xi est un gigantesque complexe industriel né au temps de l’occupation japonaise. Il a ensuite prospéré jusqu’à compter un million d’ouvriers avant 1990. Wang Bing a filmé de 1999 à 2001 la lente agonie des usines et des hommes dans l’effondrement final d’un système obsolète.
WANG BING is a major contemporary documentary filmmaker who was born in Xi’an in 1967. He studied photography at the Fine Arts School in Shenyang, the industrial city he would later film in West of the Tracks. After graduating, he was admitted to the Film Academy, where he discovered the films of Antonioni, Bergman and Pasolini, and had a particular admiration for Andrei Tarkovsky. During the 1990s, he earned his living as a camera operator, film assistant and cameraman. The film and television system didn’t suit him as he realized that he couldn’t evolve within it and decided to produce his own films.
As part of the event
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“I try to follow people’s journeys, hoping to discover little by little the spectacular side of their lives.”WANG BING As part of its focus on WANG BING, Cinéma Galeries presents an exhibition of photographs taken by the filmmaker in the 90s, in Shenyang, northern China. Where, a few years later, he returned to film… Continue reading A l’Ouest des Rails
