A Marble Travelogue

石史诗

(2021), a 96 minutes documentary film,

Netherlands, Hong Kong, France, Greece

From a perspective that transcends individual experience, A Marble Travelogue follows a piece of Greek white marble, witnessing how it undergoes transportation, transformation, appropriation, and deconstruction within the stone and tourism industries between Greece and China, gradually ascending China's capitalistic spiral. This fetishistic Odyssey in the age of mechanical reproduction portrays the myriad beings on the food chain of Late Globalization, retrospecting the bygone fanatic era when China experienced a surge in material expansion.

Director Sean Ali Wang Producers Jia Zhao, Wang Zijian Co-producers Valerie ontmartin, Rea Apostolides Cinematographers Xiao Xiao, Carles Munoz Gomez-Quintero, Sean Ali Wang Editors Tao Gu, Claudio Hughes, Sean Ali Wang Sound recordists Fan Yubin, Ioannis Fotiadis, Ma Jie Sound Designer Jeroen Goeijers Colorist Fu Shu Funds CNC, First FF Documentary Lab

  • 2020 Pingyao IFF - Work In Progress - Jury Award

    2021 IDFA, Amsterdam - Frontlight

    2022 Visions du Reel, Nyon - Grand Angle Competition

    2022 CPH:DOX, Copenhagen

    2022 Hotdocs, Toronto

    2022 Melbourne IFF

    2022 Art of the Real Lincoln Center, New York

    2022 Thessaloniki DF- International Competition

    2022 One World, Prague - International Competition

    2022 Docville, Leuven - International Competition

    2022 Docaviv, Tel Aviv - Competition

    2022 DMZ Docs, Seoul

    2022 Hainan Island IFF, Sanya - International Competition

    2022 Bergamo Film Meeting - Special Mention

    2022 South Taiwan FF, Tainan - Competition

    2022 DocsBarcelona - International Competition

    2022 ZagrebDox

    2022 Docedge, New Zealand - International Competition

    2022 Duhok IFF - Best Documentary Award

    2022 Reykjavík IFF - Best Documentary Award

    2022 Inconvenient Films, Lithuania - Special Mention

    2022 Ecofalante, Sao Paulo

    2022 Lemesos IDF - Opening Film

    2022 Rencontres Cinema Dd Gindou

    2022 Pacific Meridian, Vladivostok

    2022 Architecture FFR, Rotterdam

    2022 FF Cologne

    2022 Linea d'Ombra Festival, Salerno - Competition

    2022 Fanhua, Florence

    2022 Cinedoc, Athens

    2022 International Labor Film Festival, Taipei

    2022 China and Portuguese-speaking FF, Macao

    2023 IDF, Hangzhou - International Competition

    2023 Guangzhou DF - three Nominations

    2023 International Political FF, Carcassonne - Competition

    2023 Northwest FF, Seatle

    2023 Moldova Film Festival, Iași

    2023 Maritime Silk Road IDF, Quanzhou

    2023 Les Ecrans de Chine, Paris

    2023 Cinemasia, Amsterdam

    2023 CiLens, Berlin

    2023 Alula FF, Los Angeles

  • Art house cinema, Spain

    ARTE, France & Germany

    NHK, Japan

    ERT, Greece

    RTS, Switzerland

    KBS, South Korea

  • Columbia University

    University of Amsterdam

    Delft University of Technology

    Newcastle University

    Zhejiang University

    Communication University of China

    China Academy of Art