Zhao Liang

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Zhao Liang ( Chinese  赵亮 , Pinyin Zhào Liàng ; * 1971 in Dandong Liaoning , People's Republic of China ) is a Chinese photographer and documentary film director.

Career

Zhao studied at the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang and then until 1994 at the Beijing Film School . He earned his living as a photographer. In addition, he traveled through China and documented the everyday life of outsiders.

At the beginning of the 1990s he lived in the artist village of Yuanmingyuan, on the area of ​​the old summer palace on the north-western edge of the capital, which became a place of creative resistance for many artists. The Chinese authorities demolished the artist village in 1995. The harassment of the artists living there, their expulsion and arrest by the local police is the subject of his first documentary, Farewell Yuanmingyuan .

In Paper Airplane he showed young people addicted to heroin between 1997 and 2001. In a petition , Zhao accompanied desperate people from all over China from 1996 to 2008 who traveled to the capital Beijing to petition against abuse of power by local judicial and police authorities. The documentary had its premiere in 2009 at the Cannes International Film Festival .

Together is a documentary film that portrays the life of AIDS sufferers and their discrimination in China. It is about the casting of AIDS sufferers who should play as amateur actors in the film Love for Live by the director Gu Changwei . Together was allowed to be performed publicly in China.

In Behemoth he documented the destruction of the environment and the inhumane working conditions in coal and iron mines in Inner Mongolia . The film structure leaned against the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri on. The work was created in coproduction with ARTE and had its premiere in 2015 in the competition in Venice.

Zhao usually works on a film project for several years and also deals with the topic in the form of photo and video installations.

Filmography

  • 2001: Paper Airplane
  • 2006: Farewell to Yuanmingyuan
  • 2005: Return to the Border
  • 2007: Crime and Punishment
  • 2009: Petition - The court of the complainants ( Petition - a village accuses )
  • 2010: Together
  • 2015: Behemoth - The Black Dragon

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Brigitte Duzan: Zhao Liang: Presentation. chinesemovies.com.fr, September 10, 2015, accessed February 20, 2016 .
  2. ^ A b Susanne Messmer: Chinese director on values ​​in China. taz.de, February 17, 2011, accessed on February 16, 2016 .
  3. ^ A b Peggy Kames: The documentarist and photographer Zhao Liang: "My language is pictures". Goethe Institut China, January 2016, accessed on February 20, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Olivier Père: Behemoth - The black dragon. (No longer available online.) Arte.tv, November 18, 2015, archived from the original on February 16, 2016 ; accessed on February 16, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arte.tv
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Zhao is the family name here, Liang is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Zhao, Liang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 赵亮 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese photographer and documentary film director
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Dandong Liaoning , People's Republic of China