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Welcome to Babel (2024)

Name: Welcome to Babel
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2025-05-23T22:19:36+02:00

Documentary | 99 minutes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 99 minuten

Alternative title: Jiawei Shen's 'Toren van Babel'

Country: Australia / Germany

Directed by: James Bradley

IMDb score: 7,3 (31)

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Welcome to Babel plot

Chinese-Australian artist Jiawei Shen loses all faith in his homeland after the Cultural Revolution. In a four-part work called Tower of Babel he processes the tragedy of international communism. He works on this masterful work of art in his three-storey studio for seven years. He interweaves hundreds of portraits of celebrities with 130 iconic works of art by Picasso, Matisse, Léger and Frida Kahlo, among others. The work is a reconstruction of the utopia and tragedy of communism in the 20th century.