Dead Souls – Wang Bing (2018)
It seems as though Chinese director Wang Bing gets better and better. Each film improves on the previous one, and with this I don’t mean that he improves on his aesthetics. Wang Bing stoically, stubbornly…
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Wang Bing – A filmmaker in today’s China (2014)
I quite like how much material there is in France about Chinese director Wang Bing. I had always thought that he was as invisible academically as is Lav Diaz, but that isn’t the case at…
The Ditch – Wang Bing (2010)
Wang Bing’s films have been high on my watch list for quite some time. West of the Tracks, a nine-hour documentary, is still waiting for me. But DVDs can be exceptionally patient, more so than humans!…
The concentrationary universe in the films of Lav Diaz (paper)
RPG Conference, University of Stirling, 4 September 2014 Introduction At the end of 1943, Primo Levi, a trained chemist from Italy, was arrested, and a few months later sent to Auschwitz concentration camp. At the…