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Chinese Independent Documentary :
CIDFA043:
A Hundred Patients of Dr. Jia
Director: Wang Hongjun
Adviser: Wu Wenguang
Technical support: Guo Xiaoming, Wang Wenli
Length: 105 minutes
Production Year: 2008
About the film:
A small clinic, an elderly doctor, a crowd of patients, all in line for one request: To be cured. Over the course of the year 2008, the filmmaker, from a fixed camera position, captured the comings and goings of the Dr. Jia’s one hundred patients.
Filmmaker’s Statement:
In the summer of 2006, I returned home for a period of recovery after undergoing surgery in Nanjing. Upon the first of many daily visits to Dr. Jia’s clinic, which took place over a month’s time, something about the scene struck me – the image of a small overcrowded clinic, no trace of the sterility and order of a big hospital, patients laughing and jostling to be seen, social status divide blurring at its edges. Perhaps this sort of true congeniality can only come to bear within the confines of the small, overcrowded clinic. And perhaps this is what compelled me to start shooting!
Filmmaker's Bio
Wang Hongjun, was born in 1981, in Jin Hu County, Jiansu Province. He was service in the army for two years. He studied in Nanjing Fine Arts Academy and China Theater Academy. Now he’s living in his hometown as a freelance. A Hundred Patients of Dr. Jia is his first feature length documentary work.