Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns to the shooting locations of his films, along with his actors, friends and close collaborators. Jia recalls the inspiration sources for his movies, such as Platform, Still Life and A Touch of Sin. The film is the memory of a filmmaker and of a country in convulsion, China, which reveals itself little by little.
Direction
Salles captures Jia's stillness without mimicking it
Production
Locations transformed into haunted archaeological sites
Director
Walter Salles
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Salles and Jia bonded during a 2007 retrospective in Brazil, making this less journalism than correspondence between two directors obsessed with disappearing worlds.
The film was shot during Xi Jinping's early tenure, when documentary access was already tightening—making its frankness about demolished towns quietly political.
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