Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks

The Twilight Zone meets Blue Collar. Wang Bing trains his lens on Shenyang’s Tiexi district as state-run factories shutter one by one, leaving workers and their families in the hush of empty assembly lines. A black-and-white elegy that locks the camera onto faces while the cranes fall silent forever.

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Wang Bing directed Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks in 2004. See Wang Bing's full filmography, where to start with Wang Bing, or where to go after you've seen everything by Wang Bing.

Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks was released in 2004 (ZH original-language production), with a runtime of 551 minutes.