Signals: Hidden Histories
Overview of films
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Apuda
He Yuan | 145' | China | European premiere
With a painter’s eye, the filmmaker portrays a poor, simple man caring for his sick father. Bitter beauty. An exquisite impression of two men who… -
Bachelor Mountain
Yu Guangyi | 95' | China | European premiere
In his third film on life and work in the (once) heavily wooded north of China, Yu Guangyi (Survival Song) follows the lonely San Liangzi… -
Beijing 2003
Ai Weiwei | China | None
By far the longest film ever shown in Rotterdam – 150 hours! A car with a camera drives down every street inside Peking’s ring road.… -
Beijing: The Second Ring
Ai Weiwei | 66' | China | None
Conceptual recording of traffic in Peking. A document displaying modern China’s mass activities. Rapid changes. And the weather. One of four art -
Beijing: The Third Ring
Ai Weiwei | 110' | China | None
Even more systematic than Google Street View, the maker records some of rapidly-changing Peking’s overwhelming traffic. This time on sunny days. One o -
Born in Beijing
Ma Li | 240' | China | International premiere
The subject is raw, poignant and dirty: the poverty-stricken lives of a group of petitioners (people whose rights have been violated by local governme -
Chang’an Boulevard
Ai Weiwei | 613' | China | None
A 10-hour film (short in comparison to the 150 hours of Beijing 2003), which systematically records Chang’an Boulevard and its traffic. The famous bou -
Disturbing the Peace
Ai Weiwei | 78' | China | None
It may be an odd comparison, but artist Ai Weiwei sometimes operates a bit like Michael Moore, confronting his adversaries on camera. But he carries… -
Fairytale
Ai Weiwei | 152' | China | None
Ai Weiwei is an artist of grand ideas and equally grand projects. You could invite ten people to participate in an international project or a… -
The Interceptor from My Hometown
Zhang Zanbo | 90' | China | International premiere
One of the filmmaker’s classmates reveals his secret: he ‘intercepts’ people seeking their rights. That’s how the system works. The filmmaker follows -
Lost in the Mountain
Gao Zipeng | 95' | China | European première
Four friends hike into the mountains in search of another friend who has been missing for some time. They may not even hope to find… -
One Old Man
Hai Bo | 19' | China | International premiere
The filmmaker is also a photographer and needs no words to show that poverty and beauty are not mutually exclusive, using a farmer who is…