Part-fiction documentary into the New Silk Road. AAA Cargo traces the anticipation of infrastructure and trade on a planetary scale, following its distribution networks which are expanding across vast regions between China and Europe. Here, government efforts to speed up the movement of trade collide with more-than-human choreographies of sand, people and goods.
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Soft Film
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Armageddon 2
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Pure Difference
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Art and Theft
Grappling with the constructed nature of storytelling, the playful collage of images on theft in Sara Magenheimer’s film distract us from the ma
Film details
- Countries of production
- China, United Kingdom
- Year
- 2018
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2018
- Length
- 34'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
