Ai Weiwei's Chang'an Boulevard (2004) traces the 45 kilometer long thoroughfare that bisects China's capital city of Beijing from east to west. Dividing the distance into intervals, the artist recorded a single frame for one minute. The entire film is composed of 608 one-minute segments, running over 10 hours long in duration. Recording Beijing through the transformation of its urban landscape, Chang'an Boulevard captures the rhythms the city, its social structure, cityscape, planned economy, political center, commercial buildings, and industrial units-revealing the quotidian and everyday of China's seat of government and power.
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