Wang Bing. Filming a Land in Flux
On the occasion of the Wang Bing focus program at the Courtisane festival (March 28 - April 1, 2018) and the subsequent program at CINEMATEK (April 2 - 5, 2018), the publication Wang Bing. Filming a Land in Flux will be available at Courtisane festival and CINEMATEK. This modest English publication – compiled, edited and published by Sabzian, Courtisane and CINEMATEK – aims to trace Wang Bing’s trajectory by way of a series of writings and interviews that were published between 2009 and 2017. From Luc Sante’s account of the “panoramic spectacle of progress collapsing” in West of the Tracks to Wang Bing’s written treatment for Past in the Present, they accompany the ongoing ventures of a filmmaker who has taken on the invaluable task of weaving a map of this other China, to film the trials and tribulations of a land in flux.
Introduction
Stoffel Debuysere, Gerard-Jan Claes | 2018
The Great Leap Backwards
Luc Sante | 2009
Filming a Land in Flux
In Conversation with New Left Review | 2013
West of the Tracks: Continuing the Journey
Jean-Louis Comolli | 2013
Fengming, Anchor of China
In Conversation with Julien Gester | 2012
Fire in Every Shot: Wang Bing’s Three Sisters
Thom Andersen | 2012
“Those that work the most don’t own anything”
In Conversation with Didier Péron | 2014
The Denied Identity of the Nameless Voices
Eugenio Renzi | 2013
Alors, la Chine
In Conversation with Emmanuel Burdeau and Eugenio Renzi | 2014
“A certain freedom in life”
In Conversation with Michael Guarneri and Jin Wang | 2017
Vertical Cinema, Horizontal Cinema
Emmanuel Burdeau | 2017
Inner and Outer Space
In Conversation with Daniel Kasman and Christopher Small | 2017
Past in the Present. Director’s Statement
Wang Bing | 2012
Publication compiled by
Gerard-Jan Claes and Stoffel Debuysere
Translations
Michael Blanga-Gubbay, Cindy Carter, Veva Leye, Sis Matthé and C. Penwarden
Copy editing
Rebecca Jane Arthur and Sis Matthé
Design
Patrice Deweer
Printed by
Grafikon NV , Flin Graphic Group
Thanks to
Thom Andersen, Kheya Bag (New Left Review), Emmanuel Burdeau, Jean-Louis Comolli, Julien Gester, Michael Guarneri, Daniel Kasman, Mark Peranson (Cinema Scope), Didier Péron, Eugenio Renzi, Christopher Small, Luc Sante, Jin Wang