{"id":28181,"date":"2015-09-25T09:07:25","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T07:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/filme-2015-iron-ministry-the\/"},"modified":"2024-12-18T22:24:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T21:24:16","slug":"films-2015-iron-ministry-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/en\/films-2015-iron-ministry-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Iron Ministry, The"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Iron Ministry<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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DIRECTOR: <\/strong>J.P. Sniadecki\u00a0\u00a0 COUNTRY: <\/strong>China\u00a0\u00a0 YEAR: <\/strong>2014\u00a0\u00a0 LANGUAGE(S): <\/strong>Mandarin Chinese SUBTITLES: <\/strong>English\u00a0\u00a0 RUNNING TIME: <\/strong>82 min\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SECTION: <\/strong>International Competition 2015<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SYNOPSIS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A train, a country. Noises, pictures, even smells, a man who shares his just-slaughtered cow among people in the wagon, smog outside, people sleeping everywhere. J.P. Sniadecki spent three years traveling by train across China, observing the people in this moving microcosm. This is a laconic but very humorous panopticon of a country caught between tradition and modernity with a wealth of detail and visual accuracy that are reminiscent of Bruegel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ethnologist and filmmaker J.P. Sniadecki has long examined the transition in China. Always exploring the border between documentary and experimental cinema, in films such as YUMEN (2013, NIHRFF 8) und PEOPLE\u2019S PARK (2012) he is examining the consequences of booming growth. THE IRON MINISTRY is the result of countless train journeys through China and shows the upheavals and devastation caused by the all-pervasive drive for modernization and also the lives of people seeking their place in this proverbial train of progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost without dialogue or interviews the film reveals a country at risk of choking on its own progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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