'Til Madness Do Us Part
( Feng Ai )

Wang Bing
2013 - 227 min - Vidéo HD - Couleur - Hong Kong, Japon

A documentation of daily life inside of an isolated mental hospital in the southwest of China. Home to about one hundred men, the decrepit institute, with its intimidating fences, houses its patients in grime and seclusion. Aged between twenty and fifty, these men are detained for various reasons. Some have killed, some are simply outsiders, forsaken by the local government for having upturned the rules, but once inside, they all share the same longing for comfort and human warmth. the revolution and up to the current crisis.

Hôpital | Psychiatrie | Chine


Author-Director : Wang Bing
Photography : Wang Bing, Liu Xianhui
Sound : Zhang Mu
Editing : Adam Kerby, Wang Bing
Delegate Producer : Y Production
Co-producer : Moviola
Broadcasting Co-producer : Fuori Orario - Rai

Distribution


Distributor : Chinese Shadows
Distributor : Les Acacias
DVD Editing : Arte Éditions

Distinctions

2014 - FIDMarseille (Festival International de Cinéma), Marseille (France) : Écrans parallèles
2013 - Festival des 3 continents, Nantes (France) : Montgolfière d'argent
2013 - Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), Toronto (Canada) : Sélection
2013 - Mostra Internationale d'Arte Cinematografica di Venezia, Venise (Italie) : Sélection
2013 - Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival, Vienne (Autriche) : Sélection