Wang Bing, Ku Qian (Bitter Money), 2016, France/China, film still
Ku Qian (Bitter Money), 2016, France/China, 157 min.
Director: Wang Bing (documenta 14 artist)
Bitter Money documents China’s rapid economic and social transformation by following the rural workers who move to the city of Huzhou to work in its textile factories. The film deals directly with the effects of twenty-first-century capitalism, as filmmaker Wang Bing acts as witness to the lives of people forced to adapt to a new economic landscape.
Keimena, a documenta 14 Film Program on ERT2, airs Mondays at midnight from December 19, 2016 to September 18, 2017. Each film can be viewed during the broadcast and streamed on demand for seven days thereafter. Please note that the films are presented in their original language with Greek subtitles, and can be streamed from within Greece only.
