24 CITY / ER SHI SI CHENG JIJIA ZHANGKE, 2008duration: 112 minutes
place: Chengdu
theme: transforming the city

A productionsite of airplane engines Factory 420 is closed for a developmentproject with highrise apartment blocks 24 City. Jia made this movie to study how Chinese citizens deal with the transition from a planned economy to a market economy. The story is told at this location. 130 interviews later he de cided to add a fictional story to enrich the narrative. The film shows the influence of macro developments and political changes on the micro lifes of a handful of people.