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Country/Region: Netherlands, Hong Kong, France, Greece

Release Year: 2021

Story:

From a perspective beyond individual experience, A Marble Travelogue follows a piece of Greek white marble through transportation, transformation, appropriation, and deconstruction across the stone and tourism industries linking Greece and China. Its journey reflects the late-globalization chain and recalls China’s past surge of material expansion.

Casts & Crews:

Sean WANG
Directors

Runtime: 96 minutes

Language: Mandarin, English, Greek

Subtitles: Chinese, English

Festivals & Awards:
2020 Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon International Film Festival - WIP Jury Award, China
2021 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), Netherlands
2022 Visions du Réel - Grand Angle Competition, Switzerland
2022 CPH:DOX - Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, Denmark
2022 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, Canada
2022 Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia
2022 Art of the Real, Lincoln Center, United States
2022 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Greece
2022 One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic
2022 DOCVILLE International Documentary Film Festival, Belgium
2022 Docaviv International Documentary Film Festival, Israel
2022 DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, South Korea
2022 Hainan Island International Film Festival, China
2022 Bergamo Film Meeting - Special Mention, Italy
2022 South Taiwan Film Festival, Taiwan
2022 DocsBarcelona, Spain
2022 ZagrebDox International Documentary Film Festival, Croatia
2022 Doc Edge Festival, New Zealand
2022 Duhok International Film Festival - Best Documentary Award, Iraq
2022 Reykjavík International Film Festival - Best Documentary Award, Iceland
2023 Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival (GZDOC), China

Tags: #OverseasChinese #Europe #Yiwu #Globalization

Stills:

Director‘s Statement:
This is my second ﬁlm focusing on stories between China and Europe. My ﬁrst work, Lady of the Harbour, portrays the efforts of Chinese communities in Greece to support Syrian refugees, centering on the movement of people across continents.
A Marble Travelogue, by contrast, takes a broader perspective, focusing on the global circulation of objects under globalization.
Through stylized visual and sonic strategies, I aim to reveal—both on a micro and macro scale—what the globalization system, in which China plays a deeply embedded role, looks and sounds like. Within this tightly interwoven system, I explore how power is redistributed, how cultures are appropriated, and how individuals are inevitably alienated.
At the end of the marble’s many transformations, the pandemic and shifting geopolitics have turned this grand journey between Europe and Asia into a wistful act of looking back.