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Wang Bing
Job Film Days 2025 pays homage to Chinese director Wang Bing, in collaboration with the Turin National Cinema Museum: the author will be the protagonist of a masterclass, followed by the screening of his movie at Cinema Massimo.
Choosing this director born in Xi’an in 1967 as guest of honor means offering a precise viewpoint and perspective indication, while focusing on the reality of China’s world of work through the original point of view of one of the most influential voices of international contemporary cinema.
As photographer and video artist in addition to director, in his movies – both documentary and fiction works – Wang Bing has often tackled themes of labor in a country with rampant exploitation conditions. In order to narrate these worlds bringing them away from the darkness of off-camera dimensions, and to enlighten them on camera, Wang Bing needs his own cinematographic timing to polish every shot, while simultaneously capturing every single different layer with both precision and truthfulness. His movies often last hours, needing expanded times for both processing and viewing to deeply get in touch with the narration of environments and people. An artistic and human path renovating from one movie to the next. It is not casual that he built a labor trilogy both on and in present China, opened by the movie presented at the festival, that is to say Youth (Spring) (2023), and then followed by the two chapters Youth (Hard Times) and Youth (Homecoming), both from 2024.
YOUTH (SPRING)
YOUTH (SPRING) / QINGCHUN (France-Luxemburg-the Netherlands-Hong Kong, 2023, 212′) Saturday, October 4th, at 7:00 p.m.; Cinema Massimo, Screen 3 Event in collaboration with Turin National Cinema Museum On Saturday, October 4th, at 7:00 p.m., in Room 3 of the Cinema Massimo, in collaboration with the National Cinema Museum, there will be a screening of Youth (Spring) (France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, 2023) by Wang Bing. The first chapter in the director’s trilogy of documentaries dedicated to workers in the Chinese textile industry, the movie was in competition at Cannes in 2023 and is the result of three years of work and more than 2 600 hours of footage shot in the industrial district of Zhili, which has around 20 000 textile laboratories. Admission method: you can access the event by purchasing tickets online or at Cinema Massimo box office. International title: Youth (Spring) Original title: Qingchun Director: Wang Bing Screenplay: Wang Bing Photography: Maeda Yoshitaka, Shan Xiaohui, Song Yang, Liu Xianhui, Ding Bihan, Wang Bing Editing: Dominique Auvray, Xu Bingyuan, Liyo Gong Production: House on Fire, Gladys Glover Films, CS Productions Zhili is a working-class district not far from Shanghai, China’s richest city. There are hundreds of textile factories that produce eighty […]
MASTERCLASS WITH WANG BING
MASTERCLASS WITH WANG BING Saturday, October 4th, at 5:00 p.m.; Cinema Massimo, Screen 3 Event in collaboration with Turin National Cinema Museum On Saturday, October 4th, at 5:00 p.m., in screen 3 of Cinema Massimo, in collaboration with Turin National Cinema Museum, there will be a masterclass with Chinese director Wang Bing, a master of contemporary documentary cinema, to explore his personal view of work, memory, and human dignity. In his trilogy Youth, consisting of Spring (2023), Hard Times (2024), and Homecoming (2024), the director rigorously recounts work, marginality, and historical memory. Specifically, Wang follows the workers of the Zhili textile laboratories. His cinema does not explain, but observes and questions, leaving room for the human element. A powerful lesson on time, listening, and the resistance of images. Masterclass led by Carlo Chatrian, director of Turin National Cinema Museum. Admission method: Admission to the masterclass is free, but you must reserve your place by sending an email to programmazione@museocinema.it.