Dong (2006)

Original title

东

Directed by

Jia Zhangke

Genre

documentary film

Country

People's Republic of China

Runtime

1h 06m

Rated

12

Rating

5.6 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A film crew follows artist Liu Xiaodong as he paints laborers near the Three Gorges Dam in China and later portraits of women in Bangkok.

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What happens

Dong (simplified Chinese: 东; traditional Chinese: 東; pinyin: dōng; lit. 'East') is a 2006 documentary film by Chinese director, Jia Zhangke. The film follows the artist and actor Liu Xiaodong as he invites Jia to film him while he paints a group of labourers near the Three Gorges Dam (also the subject of Jia's film Still Life) and later a group of women in Bangkok. The film was produced and distributed by Jia's own production company, Xstream Pictures, based out of Hong Kong and Beijing. Dong was screened at the 2006 63rd Venice International Film Festival as part of its "Horizons" Program, and as part of the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival's "Real-to-Reel" Program. It was filmed in HD digital video. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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