Xu Bing is watching you

The Chinese artist Xu Bing has made his first film, a 90-minute feature entitled The Dragonfly Eyes, pieced together from real footage taken from Chinese surveillance cameras. “It’s a reversal, filming before screenwriting,” the artist told The Art Newspaper China. “Based on the collected materials, we made up a plot, then we searched for more materials to match the plot.” The resulting story is based on the real case of a husband who sued his wife for producing ug