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Beijing Green Drinks & Beijing Energy Network invite you to a screening of Beijing Besieged by Waste (Chinese with English subtitles), and a Chinese post-screening discussion on policies, solutions, and how you can help.

中国崛起已经引起全球关注，但随之而来的，还有人口数量、产业发展、城市规模急速扩大引起的各种问题。

绿领北京和北京能源网络首次合作本次纪录片放映活动，也是绿领北京的首个全中文活动，将关注《垃圾围城》。这部在北京拍摄的纪录片对首都的垃圾处理状况进行走访和调查。著名摄影师王久良记录了周边500家垃圾场的情况和拾荒者所在的环境，展现了令人震惊的影像。

王久良的拍摄中，有曾经是城市重要组成部分的河流和土地、高铁和新建的体育馆，还有各种高楼大厦；同时，也有建筑废弃物和垃圾、拾荒者的日常生活和他们的危险工作。

Photographer Wang Jiu-liang travels to more than 500 landfills, fearlessly documenting Beijing’s unholy cycle of consumption through poignant observational visits with the scavengers who live and work in the dumps.

While China’s economic ascent commands global attention, less light has been shed upon the monumental problem of waste spawned by a burgeoning population, booming industry, and insatiable urban growth.

Award-winning photographer Wang Jiuliang focuses his lens upon the grim spectacle of waste, excrement, detritus, and rubble unceremoniously piled upon the land surrounding the China’s Olympic city, capital, and megalopolis, Beijing.

Eking out a dangerous living within are the scavengers, mostly migrant workers from the countryside, who struggle to uphold familial and cultural systems amid their occupation’s Dickensian bleakness.

Wang renders the decimation of once-essential rivers and farmlands in the backdrop of gleaming high-speed trains, stadiums, and skyscrapers; the sinister cyclical pattern of construction’s consumption and garbage, and moving images of the daily lives of scavengers who labor at their own risk.

关于王久良

王久良于1976年在山东安丘出生，毕业于中国传媒大学并作为自由摄影师、艺术家和导演活跃于北京。在2007-2008年间，他创作了有关中国传统鬼神信仰系列作品。2008-2011年从事北京周边垃圾污染影像调查项目，最后呈现《垃圾围城》系列图片摄影作品与同名纪录片一部。

Director’s Bio:

Wang Jiu-liang was born in Anqiu, in the Shandong Province of China in 1976. An artist and a filmmaker, he graduated from the Communication University of China and works as a freelance photographer based in Beijing. From 2007 to 2008, he created the photography series China’s Traditions in Worshiping Gods and Spirits. Wang has been engaged in the investigation into garbage pollution surrounding Beijing since 2008.

电影放映结束后会有讨论会

There will be a panel discussion after the film screening.

FREE