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Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair, the full uncut version of Quentin Tarantino’s epic, finally gets its theatrical release this week, more than two decades after the original release of Volume 1. Executive producer Harvey Weinstein had deemed the film too long, and Tarantino opted to divide it into two […]
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Beijing Book Presentation with the RASBJ
In the fall of 2025, I was back in Beijing for the first time post-COVID and 10 years after I first started photographing Chinese film sets. I shared my photobook project at an event organized by the Royal Asiatic Society of Beijing and hosted at La Maison Lyonnaise. In conversation […]
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China Film Production Base
Things were very quiet on my recent visit to the China Film Group Production Base in Huairou, outside Beijing.
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Beijing Film Studio Update
When I the old Beijing Film Studio site in 2018, the surviving buildings were slated for demolition.
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China Film Group State Production Base
The China Film Group Corporation is the largest state-owned film production and distribution company in China. It is the only official importer of foreign films to China and has had a hand in numerous large scale co-productions bringing foreign stars to China, including Matt Damon in The Great Wall and […]
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African Streets outside Beijing
One of the newest additions to China Film Group lot outside Bejing is a North African streetscape built for megahit action film Wolf Warrior II (战狼2). In the 2017 film, a former elite special ops soldier saves a group of Chinese nationals caught up in a rebel attack in an […]
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The Beijing Film Studio
While little actual film production takes place in Beijing these days, the capital area remains an important center for the film industry, home to the Beijing Film School, the China Film Archive, the National Film Museum, and the central government’s film and television administration. The old Beijing Film Studio in […]
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China Film Project Statement
China is poised to become the largest motion picture market in the world. A set of images documenting enormous exterior film sets constructed around China.
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“China Film”: Upcoming exhibition at Black Rock Center for the Arts
The exhibition “China Film” documents film sets, locations and the vast outdoor movie sets around Beijing, Shanghai, and Hengdian, China. The images provide a window into an evolving movie industry and global media culture. The exhibition will be on view November 18-December 19, 2015 at Blackrock Center for the Arts. […]
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Caochangdi and 798
On recent trip to China, I visited two of Beijing’s arts districts. A good map and a working knowledge of Mandarin go a long ways in navigating these reclaimed industrial zones. I had neither. I showed the taxi driver a piece of paper with the words “798 arts district” written […]
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