Interview With Jia Zhang-Ke

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“…In his interview with Dudley Andrew (2009), Jia informs us that the selection and construction of interviews is to present the "collective" memory of Factory 420. Jia claims that he interviewed over fifty subjects, but thought "nine characters become one when put together…What is left is common experience, which to most Chinese is common knowledge.…”

“…In his interview with Andrew (2009), Jia further points out the ritualistic function of the apparent "stillness". Jia claims that he had people sit in front of the camera and let the camera run from a couple of minutes up to fifty minutes, in order for him to look for the subtle changes of expression and to display the workers' interiority.…”