At the latter’s invitation, Jia Zhang-Ke follows Liu Xiaodong to the site of the Three Gorges Dam, where he creates giant canvases depicting workers, and then to Bangkok, where he paints female models. Capturing with his camera what the other paints with his brushes, the filmmaker works on the same motif as his alter ego: the sudden disappearance of a geographical and human space undergoing accelerated change.
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