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.

New Year

A woman asks the hospital in which her father is due to stomach cancer to be allowed to return home to celebrate the New Year with his family. Part of the 2002 'Jeonju Digital Project'.

The Cornfield

A boy living with his grandmother in the mountains refuses to migrate in the new village. Everyday he prowls the cornfields and waits for his mother to come back.