Bing Ai

Film Information:
Year:

2007

Bing Ai

País:

 

Director:

Feng Yan

Color:

Color

Format:

Digibeta

Duration:

114 min

Cast:

  • INTÉRPRETES: Zhang Bingai, Xiong Yunjian, Xiong Changwen, Xiong Lingzhi

Production:

  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Feng Yan,
  • Feng Wenze
  • MONTAJE: Feng Yan,
  • Mathieu Haessler
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Feng Yan

Contact:

  • Contacto / Contact
  • Feng Yan Productions
  • Feng Yan
  • No 7 Row 10 Artist’s Village,
  • Hai You Street,
  • Yan Jiao Development Zone
  • 065201 Sanhe, China
  • T +86 316 335 1007
  • E fengyan1107@gmail.com
  • W www.bingai.net

Synopsis

China’s epically intimate (or is it intimately epic?) documentary movement finds a major new exponent in Feng Yan, whose documentary chronicles the labour, loves and indomitable willpower of Zhang Bing Ai, a Chinese peasant woman who dares to defy the state.

Bing Ai, her husband and two children harvest oranges on the banks of the Yangtze River. Their misfortune is to be located in the flood basin of the Three Gorges Dam Project. The government orders her to relocate, and offers miserable compensation. Bing Ai refuses to move on such terms.

Feng Yan spent ten years filming Bing Ai, the rhythms of her daily life, and her various confrontations with stolid local bureaucrats. But the most remarkable revelations come from Bing Ai’s intimate life: at its heart, this film is an ode to the love that slowly grows between husband and wife.

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