Huang Weikai’s one-of-a-kind news documentary captures, with remarkable freedom, the anarchy, violence, and seething anxiety animating China’s major cities today. As urbanization in China advances at a breakneck pace, Chinese cities teeter on the brink of mayhem. One man dances in the middle of traffic while another attempts to jump from a bridge before dozens of onlookers. Pigs run wild on a highway while dignitaries swim in a polluted river. Unshowable on China’s heavily controlled television networks, Disorder reveals an emerging underground media, one that has the potential to truly capture the ground-level upheaval of Chinese society.

Huang Weikai collects footage  from a dozen amateur videographers and weaves them into a unique  symphony of urban social dysfunction.  Huang shatters and reconstructs a world that’s barely comprehensible, though with palpable energy — vibrant, dangerous, and terrifying. “Several [films] have caught the chaos of rapidly industrialized China, but none is as raw or terrifying as this.”  —Glenn Sumi, Now Toronto

Director’s Bio:
Huang Weikai

Reviews

• The Atlantic

• Art & Culture Maven

Select Film Festivals:

2009:

• Cinma du Reel, France
  — Young Jury Special Mention Award
• Krakow Film Festival, Poland
• International Leipzig Festival for
  Documentary and Animated Film, Germany
  — Official Selection
• Pusan International Film Festival, Korea
• Yunnan Multi Culture Visual Festival, China
  — Jury Special Mention Award
• Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan
  — Official Selection

2008:

• Asian Network of Documentary Fund Project (13th PIFF)

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