The man is not in black. He is in nothing at all. Wearing his nakedness calmly, like a fact so obvious it requires no explanation, an 86-year-old Chinese male stands up slowly in the otherwise empty ...

Acclaimed director Wang Bing, this year’s guest of honor at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, will be using his IDFA platform to highlight nonfiction cinema of his native China.

Chinese director Wang Bing is more than content to take his time. His documentary Youth (Spring), which premiered in competition at Cannes last Thursday, runs three-and-a-half hours long. His second ...

August documentarian Wang Bing (West of the Tracks) concludes his Youth trilogy about garment workers with Youth (Homecoming), a work much like its predecessors in that it’s simultaneously deeply ...

Rights to ‘Man in Black,” one of two documentary films by China’s Wang Bing to appear in Official Selection at Cannes this year, have been picked up by specialty sales agency Asian Shadows. The ...

Wang Bing’s trilogy about young workers skillfully compresses five years of footage, replicating the rhythm of long hours at work and brief respites at home. Film still of Youth (Hard Times) (2024), ...

Chinese artist Wang Bing has been named the winner of the 2017 EYE Art and Film Prize, following in the footsteps of previous recipients Hito Steyerl and Ben Rivers. For the award, Wang will receive ...

Continuing his monumental Youth trilogy, following the lives of young migrant laborers in the Yangtze Delta garment region, Chinese documentarian Wang Bing returns to ...

In Wang Bing’s riveting new documentary about Chinese garment workers, a generation asks: What good is money when you have no rights? By Nicolas Rapold When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...

The Chinese docmaker's follow-up to last year's sprawling textile worker study "Youth (Spring)" is even longer at 227 minutes, but more refined. Garment labor in the wake of China’s textile boom has ...

Youth (Spring)—the first installment of Wang Bing’s larger project Spring—is a laborious film, in terms not only of its mammoth runtime of 212 minutes, but also ...

A follow-up to 2023's 'Youth (Spring)' and this year's 'Youth (Hard Times),' the film follows several factory workers as they return to their hometowns to celebrate the New Year. By Leslie Felperin ...