The Iron Ministry
ABOUT
Filmed over three years on China’s railways, THE IRON MINISTRY traces the vast interiors of a country on the move: flesh and metal, clangs and squeals, light and dark, language and gesture. Scores of rail journeys come together into one, capturing the thrills and anxieties of social and technological transformation.
JP Sniadecki is a filmmaker and media anthropologist whose work includes A Shape of Things to Come (2020), El Mar La Mar (2017), The Iron Ministry (2014), Yumen (2013), People’s Park (2012), Foreign Parts (2010), and Demolition (2008). He is a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, a member of the China Observer editorial board, and a professor at Northwestern University, where he also serves as the Director of the MFA program in Documentary Media.
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