Beijing Changping Qiliqu Temporary Shelter poster

Beijing Changping Qiliqu Temporary Shelter(2008)

Name: Beijing Changping Qiliqu Temporary Shelter
Director: Xu Ruotao
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2008-01-01
Duration: 10 min

Beijing Changping Qiliqu Temporary Shelter is a shelter that was part of the network of temporary shelters used in China from the early 1950s to accommodate homeless people (the liumang 流氓). Changping Qiliqu shelter was used as a detention center in the 1990s, in particular, to incarcerate recalcitrant Yuanmingyuan artists, including Xu Ruotao. With its cold and soulless images, this video has a latent subversive tone, and a consistent vision of a hostile world.