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Beijing: The Second Ring

2012 · 66 min

A patient, observational sit that turns ordinary city traffic into a quiet, hypnotic study of repetition and scale.

Directed by: Ai Weiwei
Genres: Documentary

Overview: Beijing: The Second Ring is a document of the two opposite views of traffic flow on 33 bridges along Beijing’s Second Ring. The entire piece is made up of 66 segments.

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Directed by: Ai Weiwei
Genres: Documentary

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Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
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Places: big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: documentary
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Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none

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Genres: documentary
Directed by: Ai Weiwei
Runtime: 66 min
Country: China
Languages: Mandarin

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