Huang Weikai’s one-of-a-kind news documentary captures, with remarkable freedom, the anarchy, violence, and seething anxiety animating China’s major cities today. As urbanization in China advances at a breakneck pace, its cities teeter on the brink of mayhem.
Programming
November 3rd
Munich/ VS – temporary home of the Museum Villa Stuck / Goethestraße 54, 80336 Munich, Germany
14:00 (GMT+2)
About the film
Production:
Huang Weikai
Genre:
Documentary
Languages:
Chinese
Production Companies:
Huang Weikai Productions
Cinematography:
Huang Weikai
Screenplay:
N/A
Editing:
Huang Weikai, Fang Xiao
Sound Design:
Huang Weikai
Music:
N/A
Cast:
N/A
Festival Track:
Sheffield International Documentary Festival; Busan International Film Festival; Cinéma du Réel; Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival.
About the director
Huang Weikai
Huang Weikai was born in 1972 in Guangdong Province, China. He studied Chinese landscape painting for fifteen years since he was 10. In 1995 he graduated from the Chinese Art Department of the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. He has worked as a cinema promoter, art editor, graphic designer, movie script writer and cinematographer before becoming a director in 2002.