Wang Bing
Born in 1967, Shaanxi, China.
Education (show/hide)
1995
Luxun school of fine arts, Photography department.
1996
Film Academy Beijing, Photography department.
Filmography (show/hide)
1997
Campus pioneers, TV Film, camera operator.
1999
Metamorphosis, Feature film, camera operator.
1999 - 2003
West of the Tracks, Documentary (9 hours) : producer, director, camera operator and editor.
2007
Fengming, a Chinese Memoir, Documentary (3 hours) : producer, director, camera operator and editor.
Brutality Factory, Short film (15 min) : producer, director, script-writer & camera operator.
2008
Crude Oil, Documentary (14 hours) : producer, director, camera operator and editor.
Coal Money, Documentary (52 min) : director and camera operator.
2007 - 2009
Man with no Name (97 min)
2009
Happy Valley
2010
The Ditch
West of the Tracks (1999 – 2003)
2010
De l’intérieur du désastre: Wang Bing & Pedro Costa, Eldorado cinema, Dijon, France.
2008
Modern Ruin, An Australian Cinémathèque exhibition & film program, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia.
2006
New York Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA.
2005
Grand Prix of the Documentary Jury, Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival, Mexico.
February 2005 : Edited in DVD by MK 2.
2004
Grand Prix of the Documentary Jury, Montreal Festival, Canada.
Galerie Nationale de Jeu de Paume, Paris, France.
Sydney Film Festival, Australia.
June 2004 : Distributed in cinemas in France by Ad Vitam Distributions.
2003
Selection of the final version of 9 hours at the Rotterdam Film Festival. The second part « Remnants » Selected by the Berlinale Forum, Netherlands.
Viennale, International Film Festival, Wien, Austria.
Toronto International Film Festival, Canada.
Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada.
Los Angeles Film Festival, USA.
BFI London Film Festival, UK.
International Documentary Film Festival Award, Marseilles, France.
Robert & Frances Flaherty Award of the International Documentary Film Festival, Yamagata, Japan.
Montgolfière d’Or of the Documentary Jury, Festival des 3 Continents, Nantes, France.
2002
Selection of the first version of 5 hours at the Berlinale Forum and Grand Prix at the Documentary Festival of Lisboa, Portugal.
Hongkong International Film Festival, China.
Fengming, A Chinese Memoir (2007)
2010
XVe rencontres du cinéma documentaire, Cinéma Le Méliès, Montreuil, France.
États généraux du film documentaire, Lussas, France. (complete version: 4 hours)
2009
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France. (complete version: 4 hours)
CINERGIES. Catalan cinema in dialogue with...
THIRD MEETING: Jaime Rosales & Wang Bing, CCB Barcelona, Spain.
2008
Fribourg International Film Festival, Oikocredit Award, Switzerland.
Rotterdam Film Festival, Netherlands.
Hong Kong Film Festival, China.
All is true, Film Festival, Brazil.
Buenos Aires, Film Festival, Argentina.
British Film Institute, London, UK.
Cinematheque Quebecoise, Montréal, Canada.
Australian Cinematheque, Queensland, Australia.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts of San Francisco, USA.
Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA.
2007
Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival, France.
International Documentary Film Festival, Marseilles, France. (international competition)
Georges de Beauregard Award.
Cinema Digital Seoul Film Festival, Korea. (international competition)
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (international competition) : Robert et Frances Flaherty Award.
Jeu de Paume, Paris, France.
Cinéma en numérique Festival, Festival d’Automne & Les Cahiers du cinéma, MK2 Bibliothèque, Paris, France.
Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada.
Docliboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
Cinema Digital, Seoul Film Festival, South Korea.
Leipzig Doc, Leipzig, Germany.
CPH Doc Copenhaguen, Denmark.
Punto des Vista, Spain.
Ficco, Mexico, Mexico.
Festival des Trois Continents, Nantes, France.
Premiered at the Kunsten Festival, Brussels, Belgium.
Crude Oil (2008)
2009
Los Angeles Film Festival, USA.
beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium.
2008
Premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival, supported by Hubert Bals Fund, Netherlands.
Hong Kong Film Festival, China.
FID, Marseilles, France.
Cinema Digital Seoul Film festival, South Korea.
Coal Money (2008)
2009
Cinéma du Réel Festival, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris & Cinéma Georges Méliès, Montreuil, France.
Documenta Madrid, 2ème Prix du Jury, Spain.
2008
L’usage du monde, Une collection de films documentaires, Quai Branly Museum, Paris, France.
Man with no Name (2009)
2011
Festival Est-ce ainsi que les hommes vivent?, Cinéma l’Ecran, Saint-Denis, France.
Cinémathèque de Toulouse / Film Archive Toulouse, France.
2010
Autour de Jean-Luc Godard et de Wang Bing, Cinéma L’éclat - Villa Arson, Nice, France.
De l’intérieur du désastre: Wang Bing & Pedro Costa, Eldorado cinema, Dijon, France.
Festival des 3 continents, Nantes, France.
Filmmaker Film Festival/Doc, Milano, Italy.
Filmer l’invisible - le Mois du Documentaire, BPI - Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
Doc Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Cinémathèque québécoise, Montréal, Canada.
Doc Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
Ekaterinbourg Festival, Russia.
Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain.
Cinema digital seoul_film festival(a.k.a. CinDi), Seoul, South Korea.
États généraux du film documentaire, Lussas, France.
XII International Biennial of Architecture, Venezia, Italy.
Xcèntric- Centre de Cultura Contemporània, Barcelona, Spain.
2009
Kinoteatr.doc, Moscow, Russia.
Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul Turkey.
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France. (complete version : 92 min)
2008
Man with no name - Film’s study, Cinéma en numérique II organized by les Cahiers du Cinéma, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
Living with video, Maison de Bordeaux by Rem Koolhaas, Floirac, France.
The Ditch (2010)
2010
Festival des 3 continents, Nantes, France.
Premiered at 68th Venice Film Festival, Venezia, Italy.
- selection of available works
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Dec. 8, 2010
Wang Bing - Projection de L'Homme sans nom - Centre Pompidou, Paris, Mercredi 8 décembre à 19h ... -
March 8, 2011
Wang Bing - Avant première du Film Le Fossé - Jeu de Paume - Le Jeu de Paume fête ses 20 ans ...