China - 2004

Synopsis: Wang Chuyu, is a poet and intellectual. Although he has been committed to a mental hospital, he remains true to his ideals and has more or less accepted his fate in contemporary society. Set in an actual Chinese mental hospital, the film is a documentary style account of one man's life as it unfolds over a ten-month period. The film seeks to shed some light on Wang Chuyu's motivations for staying true to his ideals and gracefully accepting his fate, explore the greater significance of his ideals in light of contemporary Chinese society and raise some important questions about the role (and fate) of Chinese intellectuals in this new century.

Wang Bing was born in 1967 and he studied cinema at the Academy of Arts in Beijing.

He graduated from Beijing Film Academy, Cinema Department in 1995.

He worked for television before directing his first feature film West of Tracks in 1999. West of tracks, a documentary in 3 parts (551 minutes) was invited to International Forum section of Berlinale 2002. It was awarded the Grand Prize at the International Documentary Film Festival in Marseille 2003; Montgolfiere d'or (Jury Documentaire) from Festival des 3 Continents at Nantes 2003; Grand Prize at Yamagata 2003 and the International Documentary Film Festival at Lisbonne 2002. In 2004, he is staying in Paris, France invited by the Cannes Film Festival Foundation.