‘State of Cinema 2022 - Wang Bing’

18 Dec.'22
- 19:00

Together with online film magazine Sabzian, Bozar welcomes Chinese director Wang Bing. Every year, Sabzian asks a guest to write a "State of Cinema", an invitation to reflect on what cinema means, could or should mean today. In addition, Wang Bing chose a film that resonates with that reflection: Stonewalling (2022) by Japanese-Chinese duo Huang Ji and Ryûji Otsuka. The film gives an insight into the life of Lynn, a Chinese young woman who, after discovering she is pregnant, decides to take her fate into her own hands. Wang will come to recite his speech on the Bozar stage.

Wang Bing is a filmmaker from China who graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1996. At the turn of the century, Wang Bing made film history when he boarded a goods train with a small DV camera and started filming the industrial district of Tiexi in northeast China. In each case, his films emerge from encounters with people on the margins of 21st-century Chinese society.

Huang Ji was born in Hunan in 1984, and studied screenwriting in the Beijing Film Academy. Since her first short film, The Warmth of Orange Peel (2009), she has been focusing on exploring the secrets of women’s inner emotions.

Ryuji Otsuka was born in Tokyo, in 1972. He relocated to China in 2005 to work in independent filmmaking, and has since been serving as the cinematographer and producer for all the films directed by Huang Ji.

Practical information

Location

Hall M

Rue Ravenstein 23 1000 BRUSSELS

Language

  • English Chinese
  • Subtitles: English

Stonewalling by Huang Ji & Ryuji Osuka (CN/JP, 2022, DCP, 148')

Rates

Standard

10 -

< 30 year

8 -

BIM/VT Card

8 -

EU Disability card

8 -