Known internationally for hours-long, unvarnished observational documentaries about workers, migrants and political outcasts - 《铁西区》 (West of the Tracks, 2003) on post-industrial Shenyang, 《和凤鸣》, 《死灵魂》 (Dead Souls). Festival regular at Cannes, Venice, Locarno; mostly unscreenable inside mainland China.
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王兵 is also a very common personal name in general; without context, most people bearing it are not the filmmaker.
