Welcome to Babel

95 min

Mild themes, suicide references and nudity

Follows Chinese-Australian artist Jiawei Shen's plans to create an epic work depicting his homeland's tumultuous recent history.

Chinese-Australian Artist Jiawei Shen has a plan. His wife Lan Wang says it is crazy. But nothing can stop him on his obsessive mission to create a monumental 130 square metre painting of the turbulent history of Communism. Jiawei’s 10-year deep dive into the bloody history of revolution is counterpointed by a profoundly intimate portrait of his marriage to artist wife Lan, forged in the chaos of Mao’s Chinese Cultural Revolution. With hundreds of portraits and remixes of iconic artworks, can Jiawei complete his epic Tower of Babel masterpiece while facing the considerable risks of revealing it to the world?

Director
James Bradley
Cast
Jiawei Shen, Lan Wang
Genre
Documentary
Rating
PG (Mild themes, suicide references and nudity)
Runtime
95 min

While you're waiting

Crime 101

Crime 101

140 min
Send Help

Send Help

113 min
Shelter

Shelter

107 min
Zootopia 2

Zootopia 2

108 min
Whistle

Whistle

100 min
Iron Lung

Iron Lung

127 min
Hamnet

Hamnet

125 min
War Machine

War Machine

107 min
Anaconda

Anaconda

100 min
Mercy

Mercy

100 min
David

David

115 min
Nuremberg

Nuremberg

148 min
Sinners

Sinners

137 min
Addition

Addition

91 min