Wang Bing (Chinese: 王兵; pinyin: Wáng Bīng; born 1967) is a Chinese director, often referred to as one of the foremost figures in documentary film-making. [1] Wang is the founder of his own production company, Wang Bing Studios, which produces most of his films.

Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (Mandarin: [tʰjè ɕí tɕʰý] t'yeh-shee-chuh, 铁西区, Tiě xī qū) is a 2002 Chinese documentary film by Wang Bing. Over nine hours long, the film consists of three parts: "Rust," "Remnants" and "Rails."

The opening scene of Wang Bing’s directorial debut, the nine-hour documentary Tie Xi Qu (West of the Tracks, 2003), is shot from a slow-moving train through the snowflake-covered lens of a digital video camera.

Wang Bing is a leading figure of the exciting and unprecedented documentary movement that has been gathering vital momentum within the Chinese cinema over the last decade. Wang’s epic documentaries West of the Tracks, Fengming: A Chinese Memoir ...

Between 2014 and 2019, Wang Bing and his crew shot around 2,600 hours of footage in the garment-making township of Zhili, near Shanghai, with hundreds of thousands of seasonal laborers from all over the country sewing children’s clothes in some 18,000 workshops.

Discover the boundary-pushing documentary films of radical Chinese artist and filmmaker Wang Bing in this weekend film series. A leading figure in documentary cinema, Wang Bing’s boundary-pushing films witness the accelerated transformation of China’s landscape with a deep sense of intimacy and sincerity.

Oct 1, 2017 · With a remarkably steady output of films over the last fifteen years, Wang Bing has become one of documentary cinema’s most revered filmmakers. 1 He’s never been short of ambition, either; Wang begun his career with the nine-hour documentary Tie Xi Qu: West of …

Aug 4, 2022 · In 2003, the Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing, then an unknown graduate of the Beijing Film Academy, debuted a durational colossus: West of the Tracks, a nine-hour document of industrial decline in the Tiexi factory district of Shenyang Province.

Born in Xi’an in 1967, Chinese independent filmmaker Wang Bing made his directorial debut with nine-hour documentary Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks (2003), chronicling the dismantling of a heavy-industry district in Shenyang at the turn of the millennium.

May 11, 2021 · Over the last year, many of our lives have taken on the slowed-down texture of a Wang Bing film. Work bleeds endlessly into life, economic marginalization and dispossession intensify and even the spaces between seconds feel elongated and extended.