In and Out of the Dark with Extreme Duration: Documenting China One Person at a Time in the Films of Wang Bing

Volume 15, Number 4, July/August 2016
by Brian Karl


Article Description

Wang Bing tests the conventions of what constitutes art, as author Brian Karl points out, by showing his documentary-like films of the marginalized in the context of an art gallery in addition to the cinema circuit.


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Brian Karl, Wang Bing, films, documentary, the marginalized, Crude Oil, Three Portraits, Fengmin: A Chinese Memoir, Man with No Name