
Wang Bing
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1967-11-16 (57 years old)
Place of Birth
Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, China
Wang Bing
Biography
Wang Bing (Chinese: 王兵; pinyin: Wáng Bīng; born 16 November, 1967; Xi'an) is a Chinese documentary director, often referred to as one of the foremost figures in documentary film-making. Wang is the founder of his own production company, Wang Bing Studios, which produces most of his films. His movie on Chinese labour camps, "The Ditch", was included in the 2010 Venice Film Festival as the film sorpresa. He began his career as an independent filmmaker in 1999. Discovered in 2003, "West of Tracks", an enormous documentary work of more than 9 hours, has garnered great success internationally. In addition to his feature documentaries, he is also active in video installation, fiction film and photography. His movie on Chinese labour camps, "The Ditch", was included in the 67th Venice Film Festival (2010) as the film sorpresa. His movie "Youth (Spring)" was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 76th Cannes Film Festival (2023).
Tie Xi Qu, Wang's 9 hour epic documentary of industrial China, was considered a major success. Tie Xi Qu went on to win the Grand Prix at the Marseille Festival of Documentary Film and was shown for the first time in Spain at the Punto de Vista International Documentary Film Festival. Wang's film Fengming, a Chinese Memoir, premiered at both Cannes and Toronto in 2007. Crude Oil premiered at the 2008 Rotterdam Film Festival. Since then, his films became a staple at every prestigious international film festival. 2017's Mrs. Fang was awarded the Golden Leopard at the 70th Locarno Festival.
French philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman dedicated a long epilogue to Wang Bing in his 2012 book, Peuples exposés, peuples figurants. He reflects on the social fate of images thoroughly analyzing Wang's 2010 Man with No Name, writing that the director, as a humble portrait artist of a single rural worker, manages to represent the whole of China's people (as well as people from all over the World) "not through his past, nor his ideas, nor his name, nor his place in society, but through the simple gestures with which he works at his solitary life", as opposed to the common epic portraits of national identity based on military prowess, war heroes and manifest destinies.
Acting
(2019)
(2018)
(2018)
Night and Fog in Zona
as Self
(2017)
Portrait Wang Bing
as self
(2014)
(2009)
Crew
I Come From Ikotun
Director
(2025)
Youth (Hard Times)
Director
(2025)
Youth (Homecoming)
Director
(2023)
Man in Black
Director
(2023)
Youth (Spring)
Director
(2018)
Bitter Money
Director, Editor
(2018)
Beauty Lives in Freedom
Director of Photography, Director
(2018)
Dead Souls
Director, Sound, Writer, Director of Photography
(2017)
15 Hours
Director
(2017)
Mrs. Fang
Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Sound, Screenplay
(2016)
Ta'ang
Director, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography
(2014)
'Til Madness Do Us Part
Director, Editor, Director of Photography, Producer, Writer
(2014)
Traces
Director, Director of Photography, Editor, Producer
(2014)
Father and Sons
Editor, Director, Director of Photography
(2013)
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Director
(2013)
Alone
Director, Director of Photography
(2012)
Three Sisters
Director, Editor, Writer, Director of Photography
(2010)
The Ditch
Screenplay, Producer, Director
(2010)
Man With No Name
Director, Producer, Cinematography
(2010)
The Ways of the World: Vol. 1
Director, Writer
(2009)
Coal Money
Director, Cinematography
(2009)
(2009)
Happy Valley
Director
(2009)
Tiananmen
Writer
(2008)
Crude Oil
Director, Producer, Director of Photography
(2007)
The State of the World
Director
(2007)
Fengming: A Chinese Memoir
Director, Director of Photography
(2007)
Brutality Factory
Screenplay, Director
(2003)
Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks
Director of Photography, Director, Editor, Producer
(1993)
1966, My Time in the Red Guards
Research Assistant