Wang Bing

WANG Bing

Born in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, in 1967. He studied photography at the Lu Xun
Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang, an industrial city where, years later, he would film West of the
Tracks. From there he moved on to the Beijing Film Academy, where he discovered the work of
Antonioni, Bergman and Pasolini. He especially admires Andrei Tarkovsky. Through the 1990s he made
a living working on various films as assistant director or cameraman, but, feeling that the mainstream
filmmaking and television world would not let him develop as he wished, he decided to start producing
his own films.