Mrs. Fang

Mrs Fang is slowly dying in a small room somewhere in a village in southern China, and nobody seems to care but Wang Bing and his camera. As Mrs Fang is slowly drifting away, her relatives and neighbours keep on talking. They”re mainly busy making money, or talk about making some more, they smoke and play games on their phones. They”re talking about Mrs Fang as if she”s already a thing of the past.

Director Wang Bing tries to find traces of humanity in this intimate documentary. At the same time he evokes an ominous image of a traditional culture destroyed by materialism. With his radical and moving film, Wang also expands the horizon of his own work.