Shot over the course of ten years on both film and video, the film consists of a series of carefully composed tableaux of people and environments. Pedestrians shuffle across a bustling Beijing street, steelworkers linger outside a deserted factory, tourists laugh and scamper across a crowded beach, worshippers kneel to pray in a remote village. With a painterly eye for composition, Wang captures China as he sees it, calling to a temporary halt a land in a constant state of change.
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Chinese Portrait is a 2018 documentary film directed by Wang Xiaoshuai. It was shot over ten years in the urban east and the rural northwest of China. It is Wang's first full-length documentary.
