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POET ON A BUSINESS TRIP

诗人出差了 | Shi ren chu chai le

Directed by Ju Anqi
China, 2015
Documentary
  • 103103 minutes

Synopsis

Shot more than 10 years ago and only now edited. A poet sets off on a ‘business trip’ through inhospitable Xinjiang. The physically exhausting trip provides an existential brothel visit, bumping on bad roads, and a glimpse of a disappearing world, accompanied by 16 melancholy poems.

Synopsis

Shot more than 10 years ago and only now edited. A poet sets off on a ‘business trip’ through inhospitable Xinjiang. The physically exhausting trip provides an existential brothel visit, bumping on bad roads, and a glimpse of a disappearing world, accompanied by 16 melancholy poems.