Shot in one-minute increments, Ai's video obsessively documents daily life along Chang'an Boulevard, a thriving road that bisects the capital city along its east-west axis. ("Chang'an" literally means "long peace.") Ai and his team of videographers stopped at 50-meter intervals to record each fixed shot. The result is an impassive yet revelatory videologue that charts the blood flow of Beijing through its supermodern heart to its impoverished extremities.
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Ai Weiwei Director
First release January 1, 2004 · Produced in China · Original title 北京：長安街
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Ai Weiwei Studio
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China
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Original title
北京：長安街
Original language
Chinese
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Chinese
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China · January 1, 2004
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January 26, 2012 · Theatrical
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