Disorder & Beijing Besieged By Waste

See what Chinese filmmakers are up to outside state-sanctioned production companies.
Andrew JC Nicholls
Published on November 19, 2012

Overview

Working to capture the truth that lies behind their transforming society, filmmakers across China are working outside of state-sanctioned production companies with inexpensive cameras to communicate what international correspondents obsessed with simplicity do not.

Huang Weikai's Disorder and Wang Jiuliang's Beijing Besieged by Waste illustrate, to a point, the breadth of these documentaries. Disorder is the product of over a thousand hours of amateur footage. Unshowable on China's heavily controlled television networks, it displays for the world to see the maddening effects of an ever-changing urban environment. Beijing Besieged by Waste documents the capital's struggle with its ever-encroaching waste, featuring conversation with the scavengers who live amongst the waste of 13 million people.

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