Text Interpretation Of Chinese Independent Documentary"Tiexi District"

At the end of1999, Wang Bing, an Independent Chinese Documentary producer, went into Tiexi district with a DV, aimed at recording the whole time and space during the recession of all the factories." Tiexi District" makes three factories as its leading role and the railway as thread. As it is a documentary to record social and historical changes of China and it stands for the maturation of Chinese Independent Documentary, obviously, it has important research value.This research deconstructs " Tiexi District" from the angles of narratology, aesthetics and cinema semiotics and investigates the text causes according to form and content. It finds that Wang Bing sticked to highly Non-interventionism and placed his film mode in dogma of Direct Cinema. There are plenty of long-lens, different angles of viewpoint transform, the self blanking of videographer, it apparently shows Wang Bing’s omniscient and omnipotent ambition to restore the whole historical time an space. His ambition bases on the character of omniscient viewpoint and influences from those world film masters. Furthermore, this research analyses contradictions of individual and group in Tiexi district, interprets the the reason of people were insensitive to circumstances, which is the traditional agricultural culture of China.Eventually, this research analyses the the connection with historical background and social circumstance of "Tiexi District" according to the angles of society, technique, politics and market. It finds that the development of media technology generated DV, the coming of Socialization Documentary Time appeals for products which focus on the real mainstream society, and the gaming between politics and market finally made Tiexi district as a victim during the moving on of society.