State of the World
Wang Bing, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Chantal Akerman, Pedro Costa, Vincente Farraz, Ayisha Abraham / PT, 2007 / 105 min.
The state of the world according to six filmmakers, including Chantal Akerman, Wang Bing, Pedro Costa and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Wang Bing’s short film about torture methods used during the Cultural Revolution is one of the finest contributions. Screened to accompany the exhibition around the EYE Art & Film Prize.
The Brutality Factory is the title of the short film Wang Bing made for this richly textured episode film, and it”s a title that says it all. The compelling footage about the tortures that were carried out in China during the Cultural Revolution will hit the viewer in the face.
The Brutality Factory opens on an image of derelict factories which resembles West of the Tracks, Wang Bing”s best-known documentary. Next the camera takes us inside one of the off-limits factory complexes, where revolutionary guards are torturing a woman to extract information about her husband. This is how Wang evokes the dead – both the perpetrators and the victims.
Filmmaker Wang Bing is the winner of the EYE Art & Film Prize, a prize awarded to an artist whose work explores the interface of art and film.
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Director
Wang Bing, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Chantal Akerman, Pedro Costa, Vincente Farraz, Ayisha Abraham
Production year
2007
Country
PT
Original title
State of the World
Length
105 min.
Format
DVD
Part of
Hito Steyerl, Ben Rivers, Wang Bing
The intersection between film and visual art is an important focus of exhibition policy at Eye. To underline this, Eye and the Paddy and Joan Leigh Fermor Arts Fund launched an annual prize in 2015 to promote new work by an artist/filmmaker who is making an important contribution to this interdisciplinary field.
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