Wang Bing was born in 1967 in Xi’an, China. After studying photography at the Lu Xun School of Fine Arts and then at the Beijing Film Academy (BFA), he worked in television for a while before starting his career as a freelance filmmaker. He reveals himself to the public with WEST OF THE TRACKS (1999-2003), a 9-hour trilogy that traces the decline of a vast dormant industrial site located near Shenyang in the northeast. east of China. The film has received numerous awards and disti [...]
Wang Bing was born in 1967 in Xi’an, China. After studying photography at the Lu Xun School of Fine Arts and then at the Beijing Film Academy (BFA), he worked in television for a while before starting his career as a freelance filmmaker. He reveals himself to the public with WEST OF THE TRACKS (1999-2003), a 9-hour trilogy that traces the decline of a vast dormant industrial site located near Shenyang in the northeast. east of China. The film has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the Grand Prize of the International Documentary Film Festival in Marseille, the Robert and Frances Flaherty Prize of the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival in Japan and the Grand Prize of the Lisbon International Documentary Film Festival. This first work establishes Wang Bing as a prominent figure in contemporary Chinese cinema.
He then directed numerous documentary films such as FENGMING, A CHINESE MEMOIR (2007), THREE SISTERS (2012), ‘TIL MADNESS DO US PART (2013), TA’ANG (2016), BITTER MONEY (2016), and DEAD SOULS (2018), as well as a fiction, JIABIANGOU (2010). These films are all presented at international festivals, in Cannes, Venice, Berlin, or Locarno, where he won the Golden Leopard in 2017 for his film MRS. FANG. At the same time, Wang Bing engages in the creation of video installations such as MAN WITH NO NAME (2009), CRUDE OIL (2008), 15 HOURS (2017), BEAUTY LIVES IN FREEDOM (2019).