West of the Tracks

Tie Xi Qu

21st TDF: Greek Premiere

A cinematic document about the collapse of the greatest and oldest manufacturing center in China in the turn of the 20th century. Filmed clandestinely between 1999 and 2001, this triptych records absencse in the making, as it follows the lives of the workers that work temporarily in the factories that are about to close, and harrowingly captures spectres of a new era.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.


Direction: Wang Bing
Cinematography: Wang Bing
Editing: Adam Kerby, Wang Bing
Sound: Chen Chen, Bin Hang
Production: Wang Bing Film Workshop
Producers: Zhu Zhu, Wang Bing
Format: ProRes
Color: Color
Production Country: China
Production Year: 2003
Duration: 555΄
Contact: Lihong Kong
Awards/Distinctions: Μεγάλο Βραβείο – Festival International de Cinéma de Marseille 2003, Festival Award – Mexico City International Contemporary FF 2005, Golden Montgolfiere – Nantes Three Continents Festival 2003, Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize – Yamagata International Documentary FF 2003

Wang Bing

Filmography

2003 West of the Tracks
2007 Fengming, a Chinese Memoir
2010 The Ditch (fiction)
2012 Three Sisters
2013 ’Til Madness Do Us Part
2016 Ta’ang
2016 Bitter Money
2017 Mrs Fang
2018 Dead Souls
2023 Youth (Spring)
2023 Man in Black