Beijing: Chang'an Jie Yan Xian (2004)

Name: Beijing: Chang'an Jie Yan Xian
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2018-04-07T00:37:27+02:00

Documentary | 613 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 613 minuten

Alternative title: Chang'an Boulevard

Country: China

Directed by: Ai Weiwei

Releasedate: 26 January 2012

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Beijing: Chang'an Jie Yan Xian plot

Chang'an Boulevard is 45 kilometers long. Artist Ai Weiwei has recorded the entire route. At 608 points along the way, he ran the camera for one minute, resulting in a 10-hour, 13-minute film. The infrastructure of Beijing, the capital of China for over 600 years, has a clear architectural structure: the city is split in two from east to west by Chang'an Boulevard. Together with the city center, Tiananmen Square, this boulevard became the cultural and political heart of China after 1949. The film shows the transformation of the urban landscape. The work shows Beijing as an organic whole and captures the rhythm of the city, the social structure, the cityscapes, the socialist planned economy, capitalism and the political center of power, as parts of a layered city collage.