Meishi Street (2006)
- Directed by
- Ou Ning
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- People's Republic of China
- Runtime
- 1h 25m
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A documentary about Meishi Street, a traditional neighborhood in Beijing that is undergoing redevelopment. It shows the daily lives and interactions of the local residents.
observationalgroundedurbanquietly revealingunhurriedneighborhood-focusedreflective
What happens
Ou Ning (simplified Chinese: 欧宁; traditional Chinese: 歐寧; pinyin: ōu níng; born 1969) is a Chinese artist, film maker, curator, writer, publisher and activist. He is the director of two films San Yuan Li (2003) and Meishi Street (2005), chief curator of Shenzhen and Hong Kong Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism \ Architecture (2009), founding chief editor of the literary bimonthly Chutzpah! (Tian Nan, 2011–2014), founder of Bishan Commune (2011–2016), School of Tillers (2015–2016) and Isogloss Collective (2024–). He taught at GSAPP, Columbia University and worked as the founding curator of Kwan-Yen Project from 2016 to 2017. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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