Shot in one-minute increments, Ai's video obsessively documents daily life along Chang'an Boulevard, a thriving road that bisects the capital city along its east-west axis. ("Chang'an" literally means "long peace.") Ai and his team of videographers stopped at 50-meter intervals to record each fixed shot. The result is an impassive yet revelatory videologue that charts the blood flow of Beijing through its supermodern heart to its impoverished extremities.
- Director
- Ai Weiwei
- Original title
- 北京：長安街
- Original language
- Chinese
- Released
- 26 Jan 2012
- Status
- Released
- Length
- 613 min
- Genres
- Documentary
- Studio
- Ai Weiwei Studio
- Country
- China
