Wang Bing

Wang Bing was born in 1967 in Xi’an. He studied photography at the Beaux Arts in Sheyang. After the Beaux Arts, he was admitted to the Film Academy; he discovered the cinema of Antonioni, Bergman, Pasolini. In 2002, he directed West of the tracks, nine-hour documentary on the end of a huge industrial area of China. A first version of five hours is shown at the Berlin Film Festival in 2003. The final version, in three parts, is projected at the Rotterdam Film Festival and distributed in France in 2004. This film is now regarded as both a masterpiece contractor and as an emblem of the opportunities offered by the advent of digital.
In April – May 2013, the Centre Pompidou in Paris dedicated to Wang Bing a major exhibition has the right to a unanimous ovation from critics and the public.

Filmography

Documentaries
In development: Necocli
2024: Youth (Homecoming)
2024: Youth (Hard Times)
2023: Man in Black
2023: Youth (Spring)
2018: Beauty Lives in Freedom
2018: Dead Souls
2017: 15 Hours
2017: Fang Xiuying
2016: Bitter Money
2016: Ta’ang
2014: Father and sons
2013: Til madness do us part
2012: Three sisters
2010: The Ditch
2009: Man with no name
2008: Coal Money
2008: Crude Oil
2007: Fengming, a Chinese Memoir
2007: Brutality Factory
2003: Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks