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L'ARGENT DU CHARBON
COAL MONEY

fotoWang Bing | F 2008 | 53 min.

Material : DV
Format: DigiBeta
Original language: Mandarin

Script: Wang Bing
Camera:
Wang Bing
Sound: Delphine Dumont
Editing: Catherine Rascon

Production: Les Films d'Ici
Print/Sales: Les Films d'Ici

Second Jury's Documentary Award, Documenta Madrid 2009

German Premiere

 

COAL MONEY offers a striking insight into the present-day reality of "socialist capitalism", showing aspects of its functioning on the lowest level of economy. Truck drivers who are at the same time independent merchants, tired out entrepreneurs who land in endless price negotiations after exhausting night drives on dusty roads. Coal money is circulating through all images of the film and it seems as if it will never reach a standstill, or a moment of secured profit. COAL MONEY drafts a gloomy picture of privatization as an endless struggle for a share of the pie whose winners remain invisible profiteers and never make it into the picture. Simon Rothöhler, Cargo

Wang Bing, born in 1967 in Xi’an, China. He studied until 1996 at the Film Academy in Beijing, and then realized the 18-parts TV series "Campus Affairs". In 2003 he became internationally known with his three-parts long time documentary "Tie Xi Qu/Tiexi District: West of the Tracks". His first fictional film is currently at the post-production phase.

Films (selection): L'argent du charbon (Coal Money) 2008 | Cai you ri ji (Crude Oil) 2008 (UNDERDOX 04) | He Fengming (Fengming, a Chinese Memoir) 2007 (UNDERDOX 03) | Tie Xi Qu (Tiexi District: West of the Tracks) 2003

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