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Wang Bing

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
6

Gender
Male

Birthday
November 16, 1967 (58 years old)

Place of Birth
Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China

Wang Bing

Biography

Wang Bing (Chinese: 王兵; pinyin: Wáng Bīng; born 16 November, 1967; Xi'an) is a Chinese documentary director, often referred to as one of the foremost figures in documentary film-making. Wang is the founder of his own production company, Wang Bing Studios, which produces most of his films. He began his career as an independent filmmaker in 1999. Discovered in 2003, "West of Tracks", an enormous documentary work of more than 9 hours, has garnered great success internationally. In addition to his feature documentaries, he is also active in video installation, fiction film and photography. His movie on Chinese labour camps, "The Ditch", was included in the 67th Venice Film Festival (2010) as the film sorpresa. His movie "Youth (Spring)" was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival (2023).

Tie Xi Qu, Wang's 9 hour epic documentary of industrial China, was considered a major success. Tie Xi Qu went on to win the Grand Prix at the Marseille Festival of Documentary Film and was shown for the first time in Spain at the Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival. Wang's film Fengming, a Chinese Memoir, premiered at both Cannes and Toronto in 2007. Crude Oil premiered at the 2008 Rotterdam Film Festival. Since then, his films became a staple at every prestigious international film festival. 2017's Mrs. Fang was awarded the Golden Leopard at the 70th Locarno Festival.

French philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman dedicated a long epilogue to Wang Bing in his 2012 book, Peuples exposés, peuples figurants. He reflects on the social fate of images thoroughly analyzing Wang's 2010 Man with No Name, writing that the director, as a humble portrait artist of a single rural worker, manages to represent the whole of China's people (as well as people from all over the World) "not through his past, nor his ideas, nor his name, nor his place in society, but through the simple gestures with which he works at his solitary life", as opposed to the common epic portraits of national identity based on military prowess, war heroes and manifest destinies.

Known For

Directing

2025Youth (Homecoming)...Director
2025Youth (Hard Times)...Director
2023Youth (Spring)...Director
2023Man in Black...Director
2018Dead Souls...Director
2018Beauty Lives in Freedom...Director
2018Mrs. Fang...Director
2018Bitter Money...Director
201715 Hours...Director
2016Ta'ang...Director
2014Father and Sons...Director
2014'Til Madness Do Us Part...Director
2014Traces...Director
2013Venice 70: Future Reloaded...Director
2013Alone...Director
2012Three Sisters...Director
2011The Ditch...Director
2010The Ways of the World: Vol. 1...Director
2010Man With No Name...Director
2009Happy Valley...Director
2009Coal Money...Director
2009Cinematic Correspondences: Jaime Rosales - Wang Bing...Director
2008Crude Oil...Director
2007The State of the World...Director
2007Brutality Factory...Director
2007Fengming: A Chinese Memoir...Director
2004Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks...Director
2003Tiexi District...Director
I Come From Ikotun...Director

Writing

2025Youth (Homecoming)...Writer
2018Dead Souls...Writer
2018Mrs. Fang...Screenplay
2014'Til Madness Do Us Part...Writer
2012Three Sisters...Writer
2011The Ditch...Screenplay
2010The Ways of the World: Vol. 1...Writer
2009Tiananmen...Writer
2007The State of the World...Screenplay
2007Brutality Factory...Screenplay

Sound

2018Dead Souls...Sound
2018Mrs. Fang...Sound

Camera

2018Dead Souls...Director of Photography
2018Beauty Lives in Freedom...Director of Photography
2018Mrs. Fang...Director of Photography
2016Ta'ang...Director of Photography
2014Father and Sons...Director of Photography
2014'Til Madness Do Us Part...Director of Photography
2014Traces...Director of Photography
2013Alone...Director of Photography
2012Three Sisters...Director of Photography
2008Crude Oil...Director of Photography
2007Fengming: A Chinese Memoir...Director of Photography
2004Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks...Director of Photography

Editing

2018Mrs. Fang...Editor
2018Bitter Money...Editor
2016Ta'ang...Editor
2014Father and Sons...Editor
2014'Til Madness Do Us Part...Editor
2014Traces...Editor
2012Three Sisters...Editor
2004Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks...Editor

Production

2016Ta'ang...Producer
2014'Til Madness Do Us Part...Producer
2014Traces...Producer
2011The Ditch...Producer
2010Man With No Name...Producer
2008Crude Oil...Producer
2004Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks...Producer
19931966, My Time in the Red Guards...Research Assistant

Crew

2010Man With No Name...Cinematography
2009Coal Money...Cinematography

Acting

2019Wang Bing, Tendre Cinéaste Du Chaos Chinoisas Himself
2018Night and Fog in Zonaas Self
2018Uno sguardo alla Terraas
2017Portrait Wang Bingas self
2014Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinemaas Self
2009Cinematic Correspondences: Jaime Rosales - Wang Bingas Self