Beijing Changping Qiliqu Temporary Shelter

Beijing Changping Qiliqu Temporary Shelter

2008 · 10 min · Documentary

Beijing Changping Qiliqu Temporary Shelter is a shelter that was part of the network of temporary shelters used in China from the early 1950s to accommodate homeless people (the liumang 流氓). Changping Qiliqu shelter was used as a detention center in the 1990s, in particular, to incarcerate recalcitrant Yuanmingyuan artists, including Xu Ruotao. With its cold and soulless images, this video has a latent subversive tone, and a consistent vision of a hostile world.

Directed by Xu Ruotao

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