West of the Tracks, Part 1: Rust
Wang Bing: The Weight of Experience
November 16 - 18, 2018
The first part of Wang’s nine-hour debut epic follows a small group of workers in the industrial Tiexi district in Shenyang employed in three state-owned factories as they deal with the effects of deindustrialization and the advent of the free market on the Chinese economy.
The first part of Wang’s debut film—a nine-hour epic about the decline of an industrial Tiexi district in the city of Shenyang—follows a small group of workers employed in three state-owned factories. Wang captures the workers’ plight, caught between backbreaking labor in substandard conditions and periods of simmering anxiety as they idly wait for a shortage in raw materials to subside. West of the Tracks offers one of the most affecting and thorough looks at the effects of deindustrialization and the advent of the free market on China’s economy, and its first section is a powerful snapshot of the radically changing nature of work in the 21st century.
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