Cao Fei Movies

  • 2017
    The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg

    The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg

    The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg

    5.72017HD

    Swiss collector Uli Sigg has played in the time of economic opening of China by Mao an essential role, which is still continuing. To better...

    The Chinese Lives of Uli Sigg
  • 2003
    San Yuan Li

    San Yuan Li

    San Yuan Li

    5.52003HD

    San Yuan Li is a 2003 experimental independent Chinese documentary directed and produced by artists Ou Ning and Cao Fei. Armed with video cameras,...

    San Yuan Li
  • 2013
    Haze and Fog

    Haze and Fog

    Haze and Fog

    62013HD

    Darkly humorous reinterpretation of the zombie film, set in Beijing. Here the undead are real estate agents, nouveau riche businessmen, security...

    Haze and Fog
  • 2000
    Chain Reaction

    Chain Reaction

    Chain Reaction

    7.92000HD

    Chain Reaction is a kind of independent thinking itself. Since everyone has his or her own experience and values, I call the world of Chain Reaction...

    Chain Reaction
  • 2007
    i.Mirror by China Tracy

    i.Mirror by China Tracy

    i.Mirror by China Tracy

    62007HD

    Cao Fei recorded her experiences within the online social platform Second Life. The result is a wistful, surreal vision of an alternative reality...

    i.Mirror by China Tracy
  • 2020
    Nova

    Nova

    Nova

    02020HD

    Nova follows the story of a computer scientist engaged in a secretive international project; as part of his experiments he uses his son, who is...

    Nova
  • 2006
    Whose Utopia

    Whose Utopia

    Whose Utopia

    02006HD

    A three-part film by Cao Fei. Part one, 'Imagination of Product', shows workers and machines at the OSRAM lightbulb factory in China's Pearl River...

    Whose Utopia
  • 2018
    Prison Architect

    Prison Architect

    Prison Architect

    5.82018HD

    The two protagonists – an architect and a prisoner living in parallel realities in the present time and an ambiguous distanced past,...

    Prison Architect
  • 2018
    Asia One

    Asia One

    Asia One

    02018HD

    In 2021, a young female worker, a male worker and a cute AI robot are working in a large automated logistics centre “Asia One Unmanned...

    Asia One
  • 2018
    11.11

    11.11

    11.11

    72018HD

    The documentary recorded the work overload of the entire JD.com logistics sectors before and after the Double Eleven Shopping Day in China (the...

    11.11
  • 2012
    Live in RMB City

    Live in RMB City

    Live in RMB City

    02012HD

    This video work is part of the acclaimed RMB City series which uses the idea of the ideal city as a framework for examining aspects of Chinese and...

    Live in RMB City
  • 2014
    La Town

    La Town

    La Town

    02014HD

    Model figures and plastic buildings in an imagined post-apocalyptic metropolis.

    La Town
  • 2011
    Shadow Life

    Shadow Life

    Shadow Life

    02011HD

    Shadow Life, evokes folklore and communist festivals. The vignettes are performed by shadow puppets; the form of the hand is a synecdoche for the...

    Shadow Life
  • 2011
    East Wind

    East Wind

    East Wind

    02011HD

    What made this vehicle particularly noticeable to the capital’s citizens, though, was its Thomas the Tank Engine frontage. The Dong Feng, or...

    East Wind
  • 2015
    Rumba II: Nomad

    Rumba II: Nomad

    Rumba II: Nomad

    02015HD

    The urban fringe of Beijing is the loosen bricks from fragmented land. A result of urban development. The dynamic and complex urban system produced...

    Rumba II: Nomad
  • 2009
    Qi of RMB City

    Qi of RMB City

    Qi of RMB City

    02009HD

    RMB City project is developed by Cao Fei

    Qi of RMB City
  • 1970
    RMB City: A Second Life City Planning

    RMB City: A Second Life City Planning

    RMB City: A Second Life City Planning

    01970HD

    Video, color, sound, 5 min

    RMB City: A Second Life City Planning
  • 2005
    Father

    Father

    Father

    02005HD

    The film is for the 1st Moscow Biennale. The director's father, Cao Chongen, is a famous sculpture artist. Ever since his juvenile time, he has been...

    Father
  • 1999
    Imbalance 257

    Imbalance 257

    Imbalance 257

    01999HD

    It is the typical stance of this generation, with its sensitivity and impulse, to try to blur the boundaries of all existing criteria and truths, to...

    Imbalance 257
  • 2005
    Milkman

    Milkman

    Milkman

    02005HD

    In Milkman which was made in 2005, Cao Fei sorrowfully captures the daily life of the nominal main character who is a milkman. He is sprawled all...

    Milkman