🎬 Documentary

Beijing Silvermine

"Memories of ordinary Chinese citizens"

2012 12m Dir. Emiland Guillerme

About this movie

A documentary about the French collector and artist Thomas Sauvin, who since 2009 has salvaged discarded negatives from a recycling plant on the edge of Beijing, negatives that were destined to destruction. His Beijing Silvermine archive, one of the largest archival projects in China, now encompasses over 850,000 anonymous photographs spanning the period from 1985 to 2005.

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Year
2012
Runtime
12m
Genre
Documentary
Director
Emiland Guillerme
Language
EN

Cast

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Thomas Sauvin
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Beijing Silvermine has a runtime of 12m ( and 12 minutes).
Beijing Silvermine was directed by Emiland Guillerme and released in 2012.
Beijing Silvermine is a Documentary film (2012).
The cast of Beijing Silvermine includes Thomas Sauvin.

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