Bing Ai
Film Information:
Year:
2007
Bing Ai
País:
Director:
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.