During Art Basel, Stadtkino Basel presents several screenings by Wang Bing, including Traces on June 10 at 6:30pm and Man with no name on June 14 and 18 at 6:30pm.

Filmpodium der Stadt Zürich also features the film Man with no name on June 29 at 3pm.

In his films, Wang Bing depicts, with rare beauty and uncompromising gravity, people who are often excluded from the recent economic transformation in China.

The artist gives his films a beautiful and tragic cinematic intensity in which he seeks to transform the temporality of his characters’ lives into allegory. He puts forward a deep reflection on history, paradoxes and sufferings caused by the inexorable progress of modern China, pushing to the extreme a cinema of observation and reality.

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