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Meishi Street / Alternative Archive presents ; an Ou Ning and Cao Fei work ; director, Ou Ning ; produced by Ou Ning and Cao Fei.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Zhang, Jinli--Interviews.
- Zhang, Jinli.
- Relocation (Housing)--China--Beijing.
- Relocation (Housing).
- Land use--China--Beijing.
- Land use.
- City dwellers--China--Beijing--Attitudes.
- City dwellers.
- Neighborhoods.
- Xuanwu Qu (Beijing, China).
- Neighborhoods--China--Beijing.
- China--Beijing.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Feature films.
- Video recordings.
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (85 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Also known as: Meishi jie
- Place of Publication:
- [Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] dGenerate Films, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In Chinese with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- A documentary film showing the ordinary citizens of Meishi Street, an area on the southwest side of Beijing's Tian'anmen Square, as they protest eviction orders mandating that they move to other areas of the city in order to accomodate the planned destruction of their homes to make way for a road-widening project in preparation for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. It focuses primarily on restaurant owner Zhang Jinli.
- Credits:
- Original video by Zhang Jinli ; additional camera work, Huang Weikai, Ou Ning, Cao Fei ; editors, Cao Fei, Ou Ning.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Alternative Archive, ©2006.
- "This work is part of the Da zhan lan project."--Ending credits.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 11, 2019).
- Publisher Number:
- df-mei Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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