China's Wild West (2010)
- Directed by
- Urszula Pontikos
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 10 min
- Rating
- 6.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A documentary about a rural Uyghur community in western China that digs for jade in a river bed. The jade is extremely valuable but the work is difficult and the conditions are harsh.
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What happens
China's Wild West is a 2008 British documentary directed by Urszula Pontikos. The film follows the sisyphean efforts of a rural Uyghur community digging for jade, which is 40 times more valuable than gold, in the harsh conditions of a river bed in the remote town of Hotan in Xinjiang, western China. The film received its world premiere at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, and its European premiere at the 2009 One World Film Festival. The film has subsequently screened at many human rights, documentary and ethnographic international film festivals including Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, True/False Film Festival, and AFI Silverdocs. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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