Yang Fudong Movies

A culmination of artist Yang Fudong's film practice over two decades, Sparrow on the Sea presents a nonlinear narrative following Mr. Ng, a...

Shot in the rural Chinese province of Hebei, this work captures a pack of wild dogs scavenging in an arid desolate landscape. East of Que Village...

Multi-channel video. Specifically created for the exhibition EDIT-Image Fetish and Phobia in September 2012. Different from his previous works, this...

16 screens, 10-20 minutes. It is so real. A remote and intimate world.

7-channel video installation, 35mm, b&w. Music:Jin Wang. In making the film noir drama The Fifth Night, Yang used different lenses for each camera,...

5 channel video installation, HD colour with sound, 12'00-15'48". Music by Wang Wenwei. With a haunting lyricism and dreamlike narrative, The...

10-channel video installation. Sound by Jin Wang. A concert is being staged at the seaside. Accompanied by various musical instruments, the love...

Set in the city of Hangzhou, the film takes as its focal point a restless young man, Zhu Zi, following him as he aimlessly wanders through the city....

A two-channel video projection film.

Father’s Fireworks is a short film the artist edited out of footage of daily life that he had previously shot. The film first depicts a...

In “S10” (2003), two female office workers wearing uniforms covered in zippers, zip together their arms and various other parts of their...

This documentary by Zhang Jinghua captures behind-the-scenes moments and glimpses of everyday life during the filming of Yang Fudong’s Fragrant...

The film depicts a young man, or rather four young men, as they try to retain the sentimental feeling that is about to escape them when the sun comes...

At the Summer Palace follows a mysterious man and a young boy as they wander through the Summer Palace, clad in clothing recalling styles from the...

8-channel video installation, 35mm b&w film transferred to DVD. Music by Jin Wang. A freeze-frame tableau in which seven young men and women, dressed...

Young Man, Young Man unfolds in a fragmented structure, reconstructing Yang Fudong’s recollections of his 1980s adolescence in a Beijing...

Single-channel video. Colour, sound.

This video appears to be a humorous stylistic reference to spy films. All the clichés – tension, eroticism, grave, cigarette-smoking men...

3-channel video installation. Sound by Miya Dudu. An illustration of the words of the romantic song of the same name, and a commentary on it. We see...

In a scene from “Robber South” (2001), which tells the story of a young man in the city making a living as a fruit seller while dreaming...