WANG, Bing 王兵. 2018. Dead Souls

Abstract

Wang Bing’s latest documentary is an oral history of the antirightist. movement (1957) retold half a century later by former prisoners of a re-education through labour camp in Gansu Province. Filmed over 12 years in between other projects, it is an achievement for Wang Bing as a filmmaker, as well as a notable contribution to the understanding of the early Mao era. Indeed, Dead Souls is a collection of testimonies of survivors from a series of brutal political campaigns launched from the late...