Everything started in the 90s when the digital revolution and the emergence of the first camcorders coincided with the Chinese documentarians' need to record the rapidly changing post-Tiananmen reality. Wu Wenguang's “Bumming in Beijing” (1990) became the first documentary outside of the official channels in China, and the whole wave of guerilla filmmaking was to soon follow suit. Among them was “West of the Tracks” (2003), a seminal work by Wang Bing demonstrating the New Documentary Movement's artistic potential. 2023 sees Wang's two most recent films included in Cannes Film Festival's official selection, marking a watershed moment for Chinese independent documentary cinema. The recognition, unsurprisingly, was long overdue.
The clash of the modern with the traditional, the main topic of 6th Generation's filmmakers, represented by the likes of Wang Xiaoshuai and Jia Zhangke, captivated the international festival audiences. Yet, the grimy and unglamorous works of their non-fiction colleagues never achieved the same level of recognition.
The clash of the modern with the traditional, the main topic of 6th Generation's filmmakers, represented by the likes of Wang Xiaoshuai and Jia Zhangke, captivated the international festival audiences. Yet, the grimy and unglamorous works of their non-fiction colleagues never achieved the same level of recognition.
- 5/27/2023
- by Olek Młyński
- AsianMoviePulse
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