In Wang Bing’s Three Sisters (2012), three young children are left to their own devices. The mother left the family to live with another man, the father decided to work in the city. This was the only way he could provide for his three children. The father is there and is not there at the same time. He is always there at the horizon, but never present enough to act as . . .

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