J.P. Sniadecki is a filmmaker, anthropologist, and professor of documentary media at Northwestern University in Chicago. His films, which include Demolition / Chaiqian (2008), Foreign Parts (co-directed with Verena Paravel, 2010), People’s Park (co-directed with Libbie D. Cohn, 2012), Yumen (co-directed with Huang Xiang and Xu Ruotao, 2013) and The Iron Ministry (2014), have won many awards at festivals around the world. His work has been featured in the 2014 Whitney Biennale, the 2014 Shanghai Biennale, the UCCA in Beijing, The MoMA, The Guggenheim, The Museum of Natural History in New York, and a special section of BIFF 2012. He has also written about independent Chinese cinema for various publications.
A mesmerizing, one-of-a-kind window into modern China, _People's Park_ is an exhilarating single shot documentary that immerses viewers in an unbroken journey through a famous urban park in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. The film explores the dozens of moods, rhythms, and performances coexisting in tight proximity within the park's prismatic social space. A sensory meditation on cinematic time and ...
Un soleil de plomb s’abat sur tous ceux qui traversent le désert du Sonora entre le Mexique et les États-Unis : les quelques personnes qui y vivent et les immigrants sans-papiers les plus démunis qui essaient de passer la frontière. Leurs traces et leurs dépouilles s’accumulent, s’estompent, se décomposent et s’inscrivent dans la topographie du paysage. Ce qui est absent devient présent, de mêm...
A mesmerizing, one-of-a-kind window into modern China, _People's Park_ is an exhilarating single shot documentary that immerses viewers in an unbroken journey through a famous urban park in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. The film explores the dozens of moods, rhythms, and performances coexisting in tight proximity within the park's prismatic social space. A sensory meditation on cinematic time and ...
Un soleil de plomb s’abat sur tous ceux qui traversent le désert du Sonora entre le Mexique et les États-Unis : les quelques personnes qui y vivent et les immigrants sans-papiers les plus démunis qui essaient de passer la frontière. Leurs traces et leurs dépouilles s’accumulent, s’estompent, se décomposent et s’inscrivent dans la topographie du paysage. Ce qui est absent devient présent, de mêm...