{"id":28427,"date":"2015-09-25T09:08:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T07:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/filme-2015-til-madness-do-us-part\/"},"modified":"2024-12-20T13:29:31","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T12:29:31","slug":"films-2015-til-madness-do-us-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/en\/films-2015-til-madness-do-us-part\/","title":{"rendered":"Til Madness Do Us Part"},"content":{"rendered":"
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‘Til Madness Do Us Part<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Feng Ai<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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DIRECTOR: <\/strong>Wang Bing\u00a0\u00a0 COUNTRIES: <\/strong>Hong Kong SAR China, France, Japan\u00a0\u00a0 YEAR: <\/strong>2013\u00a0\u00a0LANGUAGE(S): <\/strong>Mandarin Chinese\u00a0\u00a0 SUBTITLES: <\/strong>English\u00a0\u00a0 RUNNING TIME: <\/strong>228 min\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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

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

Wang Bing is the Ai Weiwei of documentary: He too criticizes the system in his art of monumental dimensions. A psychiatric institution in Yunnan shows the naked existence of those excluded by China\u2019s delusional modernization drive. A very tender masterpiece of precise observation. Cin\u00e9ma v\u00e9rit\u00e9!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If pictures could stink, these certainly would. For almost four hours, Wang Bing observes people vegetating in a closed institution. Men and women live here separated on two different floors \u2013 their offense is either unknown or nonexistent \u2013 as is their future. Their situation is absurd, in the term\u2019s most painful existential sense. Locked up indefinitely, stuck between exposed walls and a fenced-in courtyard, their life consists of repetitive, pointless activity. The rooms are bare, there is filth everywhere and there is nowhere to retreat. Left practically to themselves, the inmates organize their daily lives \u2013 asleep, awake, asleep. From time to time, wardens dressed in white overalls come to distribute food and tranquilizers and sometimes they might take away a rebellious newcomer for a while until he too is willing to tolerate his daily life lethargically. Thanks to his camera, Wang Bing manages the feat of becoming one with the inmates. This is the only way he can observe and document and make visible the brazenness of a society that stores people shamelessly like waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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