Christopher Adams
Jia Zhangke
FilmmakerKnown for:
Still Life (2006), Platform (2000)
Education:
Beijing Film Academy (film theory, 1993-1997)
Jia Zhangke made his first three features without official Chinese government approval - Xiao Wu (1997), Platform (2000), Unknown Pleasures (2002) - and became the most internationally recognized filmmaker documenting China's economic transformation and its human costs. Still Life (2006) won the Golden Lion at Venice. He has described his work as an attempt to recover the lives of ordinary people from the official historical record.
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ARRI
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Jia shot "A Touch of Sin" (2013) and subsequent films on the ARRI ALEXA after working with digital video on earlier productions.
Product description
Introduced in 2010, the ARRI ALEXA is a digital cinema camera that rapidly became the industry standard for high-end film and television production. Its large-format sensor and proprietary ALEV color science produced an image quality that many cinematographers considered closer to film than any preceding digital system. It has been used to shoot Academy Award-winning films including Gravity, Birdman, and Parasite.
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Last updated March 20, 2026
