Meishi Street

Meishi Street, directed by Ou Ning, is a 2006 independent Chinese documentary [1] that portrays a group of Beijing residents protesting the planned destruction of their street prior to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The filmmakers gave video cameras to the subjects, and they capture exclusive footage of the eviction process.[2]

Meishi Street
DVD cover by dGenerate Films
Traditional煤市街
Simplified煤市街
Mandarinmei shi jie
Directed byOu Ning
Distributed bydGenerate Films
Release date
  • 2006 (2006)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryChina
LanguageMandarin

Public screening history
  • 2018, Xinfu Market, JUT Foundation for Arts and Architecture, Taipei
  • 2017, ArchiFest 2017, The Single Screen, NTU CCA Singapore
  • 2016, Salt Galata, Istanbul
  • 2016, Chinese Visual Festival, London
  • 2015, Australian National University, Canberra
  • 2012, Free Word Centre, London
  • 2012, Milan Asian, African and Latin American Film Festival
  • 2012, Melbourne International Film Festival
  • 2011, San Sebastian International Film Festival
  • 2010, State University of New York, Fredonia
  • 2010, Washington University, St. Louis
  • 2010, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • 2010, Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge
  • 2009, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid
  • 2009, Portland Art Museum
  • 2009, Duke University
  • 2009, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
  • 2009, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona
  • 2009, exhibition, "The Symbolic Efficiency of the Frame", The 4th Tirana Biennale, Albania
  • 2008, exhibition, "Concrete Culture", Ivan Dougherty Gallery, College of Fine Arts, The University of New South Wales, Sydney
  • 2008, exhibition, "On Cities; maps, cars, people and narratives in the urban environment", The Swedish Museum of Architecture, Stockholm
  • 2008, 3rd Beijing Independent Film Festival
  • 2008, 6th Hong Kong Social Movement Film Festival
  • 2008, Cinémathèque québécoise, Montreal
  • 2008, School of Oriental and African Studies(SOAS), University of London
  • 2008, BAM/PFA(Berkeley), Stanford University, University of Texas, Columbia University, Michigan State University, Chicago University
  • 2008, Nova Cinema, Brussels
  • 2008, Beijing Cultural Heritage Protection Center
  • 2008, Center for Architecture, New York
  • 2008, BFI Southbank and Museum in Docklands, London
  • 2008, Babylon Cinema, Berlin
  • 2007, Chinema Direct program, Nova Cinema, Brussels
  • 2007, exhibition, "On The Outside: The Social Engine-Exploring Flexibility", ACC Galerie, Weimar
  • 2007, exhibition, "Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary: Optimism in the Age of Global War", the10th Istanbul Biennial
  • 2007, exhibition, "Who do you think you are?", Base B, Milano Bovisa
  • 2007, exhibition, "World Factory", Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute
  • 2006, exhibition, "Contemporary China: Architecture, Arts and Visual Culture", 2006, NAi
  • 2006, exhibition, "Detours: Tactical Approaches to Urbanization in China", Eric Arthur Gallery, University of Toronto
  • 2006, exhibition, "Slum: Art and Life in the Here and Now of the Civil Age", Neue Galerie Graz
  • 2006, exhibition, "Total Stadt: Beijing Case", ZKM, Karlsruhe
  • 2006, world premiere, Museum of Modern Art, New York

References
  1. Ou, Ning; Cao, Fei; Zhang, Jinli; Alternative Archive; dGenerate Films (Firm) (2006), Meishi Street, DGenerate Films, retrieved 2018-12-30
  2. "UT Documentary Center Presents: Meishi Street". Archived from the original on 2009-10-03. Retrieved 2009-10-28.


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