A Thousand-Year Stage 千年舞台 (2020)
A Thousand-Year Stage (2020) features performances by local residents and migrant workers in Xiongan New Area, a region in Hebei, China slated to become a megacity, as they await its transformation. The film moves between Baigou Station and the construction site of “Asia’s largest train station,” Xiongan Station.
36 min, HD
Screenings and installations:
2024 - Images Festival (Toronto), Museum of Modern Art, Modern Mondays (New York)
2022 - Going Nowhere: Three Velocities, Tlaxcala 3 (Mexico City); Creating the ‘Good Life’ in the City, Heidelberg University; 30____70 Doc Fest (Vittorio Veneto, Italy)
2021 - Re:assemblage Collective (Toronto)
2020 - Visions du Réel, Opening Scenes (Nyon, Switzerland); Art of the Real, Film at Lincoln Center (New York); Guanajuato International Film Festival; Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
2019 - Beijing 22 i: project space (Beijing); MIT Mutual Pictures (Cambridge, MA)
VOD: Available on dafilms.com in select countries
On collection at the Chinese Independent Film Archive (Newcastle, UK)
Press and other writing:
Dennis Lim’s 2020 Year-End List; Gary Zhexi Zhang, "Sinofuturism and Its Uses: Contemporary Art and Diasporic Desire."; Fan Wu, “Lady Stage Afternoon Dogs Keeper,” Imagining Futures of Experimental Media
