Building Archaeology
Director: Xu Ruotao
The documentary Building Archeology (jiànzhú kǎo) (2011) considers the more recent past. It’s made up of three vignettes about different buildings in Beijing: a museum, an abandoned hospital, and a detention center. The latter two vignettes are especially interesting. In the second, a woman wanders around the ruins of a hospital built in a week to deal with the 2003 SARS outbreak. The third concerns a former prisoner, tracing out a map of the detention center where he was held in 2011.
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Building Archaeology (2011) is a documentary film. The film has not yet gathered many viewer ratings. The film runs 16min. Check current streaming availability in the "Where to watch" section above.
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Building Archaeology runs 16 minutes (16min).
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Building Archaeology was released in 2011.
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