Dong
Directed by Jia Zhangke6.460%45%5.5
China's greatest living filmmaker Jia Zhangke (Platform, The World) travels with acclaimed painter Liu Xiaodong from China to Thailand as they meet everyday workers in the throes of social turmoil. Liu Xiaodong is well-known for his monumental canvases, particularly those inspired by China's Three Gorges Dam project. In DONG, Jia Zhangke visits Liu on the banks of Fengjie, a city about to be swallowed up by the Yangtze River. The area is in the process of being "de-constructed" by armies of shirtless male workers who form the subject of Liu's paintings. Liu and Jia next travel to Bangkok, where Liu paints Thai sex workers languishing in brothels. The two sets of paintings are united in their subjects' shared sense of malaise in the face of the dehumanizing labor afforded them.
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Dong was released on November 18, 2006.
Dong was directed by Jia Zhangke.
Dong has a runtime of 65 min.
Dong was produced by Wang Yu.
The key characters in Dong are Himself (Liu Xiaodong), Han Sanming.
Dong is rated Not Rated.
Dong is a Documentary, Drama film.
Dong has an audience rating of 4.5 out of 10.