Anonymity and intimacy - these two characteristics work hand in hand in Wang Bing's Man With No Name (2010), which is a mere glimpse of the life of a hermit, given the director's otherwise very extensive and lengthy observations of people in their given environment. With a running time of around 90 minutes, one could almost describe it as a "normal" film. At the same time, Wang Bing's normality differs from that of the standard viewer, showing this again and again, most recently with his eight-hour long documentary Dead Souls, which . . .
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