In Gansu Province, northwest China, lie the remains of countless prisoners abandoned in the Gobi Desert sixty years ago. Designated as “ultra-rightists” in the Communist Party’s Anti-Rightist campaign of 1957, they starved to death in the Jiabiangou and Mingshui reeducation camps. The film invites us to meet the survivors of the camps to find out firsthand who these persons were, the hardships they were forced to endure and what became their destiny.
This film is divided into 3 parts:
Part 1 available HERE
Part 3 available HERE
This film is included in the curated program done in collaboration with Sabzian. You can read the following text about it there:
Wang Bing: Filming a Land in Flux. Issue on Wang Bing, 2019.
Words and Silence. Wang Bing about Dead Souls. Conversation with Emmanuel Burdeau, 2018.
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