导演阐述(chanshu) 《铁西区》由《工厂》`《艳粉街》和《铁路》三部分独立的影片构成。 《工厂》：是中国上个世纪后五十年期间国家计划经济的产物。在这种社会经济体制下，逐渐形成一整套成熟的人的生活模式。影片主要拍摄在这种生活模式下的工人在工厂里如何工作和生活的细节，以及当这些工厂逐渐停产关闭时，工人离开自己熟悉的工厂的那一刻。 《艳粉街》：主要拍摄一群十七`八岁的男孩子和他们的父母，在1999年至2001年这段时间里的日常生活到艳粉街搬迁为止。影片主要通过艳粉街居民的日常生活细节，展现出中国这一阶层的人，在物质比较缺乏的环境中如何来面对他们自身的现实，从而可以透视出他们的道德与情感以及他们理想中的生活与现实生活的差距。 《铁路》：通过这辆运输用的火车展示出铁西工业区的外部形象。借助火车工作人员与围绕该机车生存的杜锡云父子来传达一个游离于社会体制外的个体，在面对颠簸`变化的生活之中如何来掌握自身的命运。以及火车上的工作人员终日处在毫无变化而又荒诞的工作中。 Tie Xi Qu: West of Tracks A three-part documentary by independent Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing
Filmed over a two-year period in the Tie Xi industrial district, one of the hardest-hit areas of northeastern China’s “rust belt”, West of Tracks explores the lives, loves, livelihoods, aspirations and frustrations of Chinese factory workers and their families. The film is a powerful commentary on the ways in which China’s rush to modernity - reform and restructuring, factory bankruptcies and closures, the demolition and relocation of old neighborhoods, and the complex and changing relationship between state-owned companies and their employees – has affected working class families in China. Part I: Rust Rust documents the steady decline of three economically troubled factories in Tie Xi District. Workers in the Shenyang Smelting Factory – already working under dangerous conditions, sick with lead poisoning, faced with constant raw materials shortages and rumors of impending bankruptcy – are well aware that the factory’s days are numbered. Facing a depressing and uncertain future, the idled workers spend their days playing Chinese chess, drinking, fighting, scheming ways to make some extra cash and awaiting the inevitable: the final closure of the factory where some of them have worked for decades. Not far away, the Shenyang Electrical Cable Factory is experiencing similar difficulties. Most of the regular workers have already been laid off, leaving only a skeleton staff of mid-level cadres to look after the factory. At a Chinese New Year’s dinner, the managers speak frankly about the enormous difficulties they will face in trying to privatize the factory. When the cable factory cannot manage to pay its electric bills, it is forced to shut down for the winter. The staffers return in the spring only to find their offices frozen solid – a leak has left the floor covered with a half meter of ice. A third factory, the Shenyang Sheet Metal Factory, has been trying unsuccessfully for three years to file for bankruptcy, only to be turned down time and time again by a city government that fears exceeding its maximum annual bankruptcy “quota”. As the pressure builds, workers begin dismantling sheet metal equipment to be sold at auction, scavengers comb every inch of the factory grounds for bits of scrap metal, and the factory is rocked by a demonstration held by retired factory workers demanding their unpaid pensions… Part II: Remnants Remnants follows a group of Chinese teens living in Tie Xi District worker housing. While the adults in the neighborhood worry about factory closures, layoffs and financial pressures, the teens are preoccupied with their own lives and concerns: Seventeen-year-old Bobo is busy chasing after Nana, a girl from the neighborhood who won’t give him the time of day; seventeen-year-old Chi Ying and her boyfriend Yi Xiu find their relationship imperiled by their constant bickering; eighteen-year-old Wang Zhen busily scribbles angst-filled love letters to a girl he likes, only to be mocked by his friends; eighteen-year-old Qu Jian, living with relatives after his parents’ divorce, does his best to track down his absent mother while helping to support his family with piece-work packaging chopsticks; and seventeen-year-old Ren Huan is an orphan who finds himself very much alone in the world. When the authorities announce that the neighborhood in which they live is going to be demolished, the teens are forced to make some difficult choices and begin thinking seriously about their futures. Meanwhile, many of the neighborhood residents – unhappy with the tiny apartments given to them as compensation - refuse to move from their old homes. As winter snowstorms arrive and developers begin demolishing the neighborhood, the remaining residents continue their passive resistance, braving freezing temperatures, water and power outages, and a variety of intimidation tactics designed to force them out of their homes… Part III: Rails Rails examines the decline of the old freight railway that links the factories of the Tie Xi District. The railway workers, once kept busy shipping raw materials and finished goods to and from the factories, now find themselves with very little to do but while away their days with games of Chinese chess and other small diversions. There are also a number of homeless individuals with no real jobs or responsibilities, living on the fringes of society, who have come to rely on what they can beg, borrow or scavenge from the railway. Middle-aged Du Xiyun and his son Du Yang are two such “railway dependents” making a marginal living scavenging raw materials and doing a variety of odd jobs for railway staff. But when the railway management institutes a crackdown designed to drive off the scavengers, Du Xiyun is arrested by the police and charged with stealing coal. Soon after he is released, he and his son disappear from the district, while life goes on as usual for the railway workers. When Du Xiyun finally does reappear a year later, he seems to have made a new life for himself…
West of Tracks (comments from the director, Wang Bing)
West of Tracks is an independently produced Chinese documentary film in three parts, entitled: Rust (Part I), Remnants (Part II) and Rails (Part III). Part One, Rust, explores the legacy of fifty years of Chinese central economic planning and the ways in which Chinese individuals, families and society have been shaped by decades of living under the socialist economic system. The film focuses on the daily lives and work routines of Chinese workers in three different financially troubled state-owned factories within the Tie Xi District of northeastern China. As the factories slide closer and closer to bankruptcy, massive layoffs force workers out of their predictable, familiar factory environments and into a uncertain and frightening future. Part Two, Remnants, focuses on the lives of a group of teens living with their parents in factory-provided housing in a blue collar neighborhood in Tie Xi District - an area known as “Rainbow Row”, which has been slated for destruction by local authorities. Filmed between 1999 and 2001, Remnants documents the everyday lives of these residents as they deal with the impending demolition of their neighborhood, and examines the mores and values, hopes and dreams, struggles and aspirations of the Chinese working class. Part Three, Rails, tells the story of the old freight railway that links the factories of the Tie Xi District together, and of two men: Du Xiyun and his son, unemployed scavengers living at the fringes of society, who depend upon the railway for their livelihood. As Du Xiyun and his son struggle to cope with changes in the world around them and to maintain some control over their own destinies, their friends working for the state-owned railways continue going through the empty motions of their jobs, absurdly, as if frozen in an era long since past…
王兵《铁西区》（首映）3月29日
时间：2003年3月29日 上午10:00
地点：北师大敬文讲堂(又名四百座，第七教学楼旁边)
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本影片时长一共9个小时。分3个部分。第一部分《工厂》为4个小时，第二部分《艳粉街》为3个钟头，第三部分《铁路》为2个小时15分钟。
放映安排：上午10:00-12:00先放映《工厂》的前半部分，12:30-14:30放映后半部分。14:30-17:30放映《艳粉街》,18:00-20:00《铁路》。放映完毕之后是与导演交流时间。本纪录片作者《王兵》将到场与观众交流。
为了维护看片秩序，本次观影活动将通过内部售票筹集活动经费。门票一共对外200张，每张10元，购票地点将安排在北师大。
地点：北师大中北楼后
时间：为周四周五11:30-12:30 和17:30:18:30
《工厂》
沈阳冶炼厂建于1934年，曾有工人13000多人。由铜冶炼车间的鼓风炉班组`电解铜车间二班组`铅冶炼维修工段`铅电解维修工段以及锌冶炼维修班组等组成。在工厂即将停顿期间，这些工人每日在厂内喝酒`打架`赌博，以此度日，他们面对命运的转变束手无策。终于工厂关闭，大量的人员下岗，新的工作一时难以解决。
沈阳电缆厂建于1934年，曾有工人12000多人。型线分厂中，中层干部留守在工厂内。2000年元旦给工人发工资。在给总厂的月报表上，前几年一直是上千万，而现在只有四万元。一次在饭店里，型线分厂厂长及中层干部谈了工厂所面临的困难。而经过一年后，工厂还是没有任何改变。至2000年的冬天，工厂因交不起采暖费被迫使留守人员放假，第二年的春天，工厂办公室内的冰冻结有半米多。
沈阳轧钢厂建于1934年，曾有工人6000多人，于1998年宣布破产，而申报破产的要求未被国家批准。于2000年的夏天，留守人员开始翻开工厂内的每一寸土地寻找钢锭而后卖掉。秋季，工厂大门口聚集几百名退休工人等待工厂发劳保工资，而钱款迟迟未到，同时，工厂内部却在拆除工厂生产用的设备。
《艳粉街》
艳粉街——是工人居住的棚户区。波波——十七岁。2000年的情人节，他为给自己喜欢的女孩送一朵玫瑰，而从别的女孩那里借一朵花，并托她送去。迟英——十七岁。她与恋人一休在一起事事不顺心，最终两个人在一次吵架中分手。王震——十八岁。将自己努力写完的情书拿到小卖店显示给大家，却遭到大家的嘲笑。曲键——十八岁。父母离婚，一直与奶奶生活在一起。全家人靠装筷子每日挣二十元钱来维持生计。为了给母亲争得新的住房，而前往姨家打听母亲的消息，回家后却遭到姥姥的谩骂。任欢——十七岁，是一个孤儿，和自己的姥姥生活在一起。对将要搬迁的房子`对未来的房子，只能在想象之中，心里不由得羡慕有父母的孩子。这一群十七`八岁的男孩在这一年当中，慢慢的品尝起生活中的苦涩。而他们的父母大多数失去工作，家庭没有稳定的经济来源，终日为生计惶惶不安。2000年年末，艳粉街棚户区房屋拆迁改造，人们为争得应有的新房面积，与房屋开发商明争暗斗，最终人们冒着大雪`踩着泥泞，扛着自家的门板，穿过拆成一片废墟的艳粉街，带着失望离开自己的住所。
作品简介 《铁路》
铁西工业区铁路是为提供运输各工厂生产所需的原材料，以及生产完成后的产品运输任务。火车上的工作人员终日游荡在各工厂之间。在铁路货场周围伴随一些没有户籍`没有固定家庭住所的人员，以捡火车上的货物为生。
一名叫杜锡云的中年男子和他的大儿子杜洋，二十年来，父子俩人一直为这个火车班组服务，同时他们也是铁路公安派出所安插在货场周围人群中的内线之一，他们互相利用。但由于货场管理单位希望将这父子两人赶走，终于在一次偷煤后，杜锡云被警察抓走。大儿子杜洋去看守所未能接到父亲，回到铁路货场，其父亲已经被释放。父子俩人去饭店喝酒，杜洋脆弱的情感无法承受在父亲被抓期间，感情上对父亲的依赖，而喝了大量的烈酒，与父亲撕打在一起。杜锡云无奈背着儿子穿过黑沉沉的街道回到家中，搂着儿子杜洋倾诉自己内心的委屈。第二天，父子俩人突然离开此地，消失得无影无踪。而这个火车班组还是日复一日，年复一年地继续滑行在工业区的铁路上。一年后，杜锡云来到铁路货场，看望机车工作人员。杜锡云请两位朋友来自己的新住所喝酒，并打电话约来自己在舞厅认识的一位三十多岁的女人，一起在春节晚会的欢快声音之中，度过2001年的春节。
导演阐述(chanshu)
《铁西区》由《工厂》`《艳粉街》和《铁路》三部分独立的影片构成。
《工厂》：是中国上个世纪后五十年期间国家计划经济的产物。在这种社会经济体制下，逐渐形成一整套成熟的人的生活模式。影片主要拍摄在这种生活模式下的工人在工厂里如何工作和生活的细节，以及当这些工厂逐渐停产关闭时，工人离开自己熟悉的工厂的那一刻。
《艳粉街》：主要拍摄一群十七`八岁的男孩子和他们的父母，在1999年至2001年这段时间里的日常生活到艳粉街搬迁为止。影片主要通过艳粉街居民的日常生活细节，展现出中国这一阶层的人，在物质比较缺乏的环境中如何来面对他们自身的现实，从而可以透视出他们的道德与情感以及他们理想中的生活与现实生活的差距。
《铁路》：通过这辆运输用的火车展示出铁西工业区的外部形象。借助火车工作人员与围绕该机车生存的杜锡云父子来传达一个游离于社会体制外的个体，在面对颠簸`变化的生活之中如何来掌握自身的命运。以及火车上的工作人员终日处在毫无变化而又荒诞的工作中。
Tie Xi Qu: West of Tracks
A three-part documentary by independent Chinese filmmaker Wang Bing
Filmed over a two-year period in the Tie Xi industrial district, one of the hardest-hit areas of northeastern China’s “rust belt”, West of Tracks explores the lives, loves, livelihoods, aspirations and frustrations of Chinese factory workers and their families. The film is a powerful commentary on the ways in which China’s rush to modernity - reform and restructuring, factory bankruptcies and closures, the demolition and relocation of old neighborhoods, and the complex and changing relationship between state-owned companies and their employees – has affected working class families in China.
Part I: Rust
Rust documents the steady decline of three economically troubled factories in Tie Xi District. Workers in the Shenyang Smelting Factory – already working under dangerous conditions, sick with lead poisoning, faced with constant raw materials shortages and rumors of impending bankruptcy – are well aware that the factory’s days are numbered. Facing a depressing and uncertain future, the idled workers spend their days playing Chinese chess, drinking, fighting, scheming ways to make some extra cash and awaiting the inevitable: the final closure of the factory where some of them have worked for decades. Not far away, the Shenyang Electrical Cable Factory is experiencing similar difficulties. Most of the regular workers have already been laid off, leaving only a skeleton staff of mid-level cadres to look after the factory. At a Chinese New Year’s dinner, the managers speak frankly about the enormous difficulties they will face in trying to privatize the factory. When the cable factory cannot manage to pay its electric bills, it is forced to shut down for the winter. The staffers return in the spring only to find their offices frozen solid – a leak has left the floor covered with a half meter of ice. A third factory, the Shenyang Sheet Metal Factory, has been trying unsuccessfully for three years to file for bankruptcy, only to be turned down time and time again by a city government that fears exceeding its maximum annual bankruptcy “quota”. As the pressure builds, workers begin dismantling sheet metal equipment to be sold at auction, scavengers comb every inch of the factory grounds for bits of scrap metal, and the factory is rocked by a demonstration held by retired factory workers demanding their unpaid pensions…
Part II: Remnants
Remnants follows a group of Chinese teens living in Tie Xi District worker housing. While the adults in the neighborhood worry about factory closures, layoffs and financial pressures, the teens are preoccupied with their own lives and concerns: Seventeen-year-old Bobo is busy chasing after Nana, a girl from the neighborhood who won’t give him the time of day; seventeen-year-old Chi Ying and her boyfriend Yi Xiu find their relationship imperiled by their constant bickering; eighteen-year-old Wang Zhen busily scribbles angst-filled love letters to a girl he likes, only to be mocked by his friends; eighteen-year-old Qu Jian, living with relatives after his parents’ divorce, does his best to track down his absent mother while helping to support his family with piece-work packaging chopsticks; and seventeen-year-old Ren Huan is an orphan who finds himself very much alone in the world. When the authorities announce that the neighborhood in which they live is going to be demolished, the teens are forced to make some difficult choices and begin thinking seriously about their futures. Meanwhile, many of the neighborhood residents – unhappy with the tiny apartments given to them as compensation - refuse to move from their old homes. As winter snowstorms arrive and developers begin demolishing the neighborhood, the remaining residents continue their passive resistance, braving freezing temperatures, water and power outages, and a variety of intimidation tactics designed to force them out of their homes…
Part III: Rails
Rails examines the decline of the old freight railway that links the factories of the Tie Xi District. The railway workers, once kept busy shipping raw materials and finished goods to and from the factories, now find themselves with very little to do but while away their days with games of Chinese chess and other small diversions. There are also a number of homeless individuals with no real jobs or responsibilities, living on the fringes of society, who have come to rely on what they can beg, borrow or scavenge from the railway. Middle-aged Du Xiyun and his son Du Yang are two such “railway dependents” making a marginal living scavenging raw materials and doing a variety of odd jobs for railway staff. But when the railway management institutes a crackdown designed to drive off the scavengers, Du Xiyun is arrested by the police and charged with stealing coal. Soon after he is released, he and his son disappear from the district, while life goes on as usual for the railway workers. When Du Xiyun finally does reappear a year later, he seems to have made a new life for himself…
West of Tracks
(comments from the director, Wang Bing)
West of Tracks is an independently produced Chinese documentary film in three parts, entitled: Rust (Part I), Remnants (Part II) and Rails (Part III).
Part One, Rust, explores the legacy of fifty years of Chinese central economic planning and the ways in which Chinese individuals, families and society have been shaped by decades of living under the socialist economic system. The film focuses on the daily lives and work routines of Chinese workers in three different financially troubled state-owned factories within the Tie Xi District of northeastern China. As the factories slide closer and closer to bankruptcy, massive layoffs force workers out of their predictable, familiar factory environments and into a uncertain and frightening future.
Part Two, Remnants, focuses on the lives of a group of teens living with their parents in factory-provided housing in a blue collar neighborhood in Tie Xi District - an area known as “Rainbow Row”, which has been slated for destruction by local authorities. Filmed between 1999 and 2001, Remnants documents the everyday lives of these residents as they deal with the impending demolition of their neighborhood, and examines the mores and values, hopes and dreams, struggles and aspirations of the Chinese working class.
Part Three, Rails, tells the story of the old freight railway that links the factories of the Tie Xi District together, and of two men: Du Xiyun and his son, unemployed scavengers living at the fringes of society, who depend upon the railway for their livelihood. As Du Xiyun and his son struggle to cope with changes in the world around them and to maintain some control over their own destinies, their friends working for the state-owned railways continue going through the empty motions of their jobs, absurdly, as if frozen in an era long since past…