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Director

Jia Zhangke

China · Fenyang · b. 1970

The cartographer of contemporary China's spiritual void. His films move with the slowness of rivers and highways — time itself becomes landscape, emptiness becomes eloquence. He films what remains when everything has been sold.

Thematic context drawn from Senses of Cinema. Read the full critical essay →