Chinese Portrait

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