The Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing in the Lab Jury 2015
Born in 1967 in Xi’an, capital of Shaanxi province in central China, Wang Bing studied photography at the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in 1992, then film at the Beijing Film Academy from 1995.
He began his career as an independent filmmaker in 1999 by filming the lives of factory workers in a neighborhood about to be destroyed by orders of a municipal reform. Thus was born the 9-hour-long documentary, Tie Xi Qu: West of the Rails.
In Fengming, Chronicle of a Chinese Woman (2007), Wang Bing interviews He Fengming, author of the book My Life in 1957, about her experiences during the Anti-Rightist Movement of the 1950’s and the subsequent Cultural Revolution.
Extract from “In Fengming, Chronicle of a Chinese Woman”
In March 2012, his first fiction film, The Ditch, was released in France. The film tells the story of life in a Chinese forced-labor camp in the Gobi desert in the 1960s.
He returned to the documentary format with Three Sisters (released in 2014) by filming the extreme living conditions of three young sisters in Yunnan province. Wang Bing films without commentary, thus enabling the complete immersion of the viewer.
Trailer of “Three Sisters”
In 2014, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris held an exhibition of his photography and the complete collection of his films.
