Documentaries Go Vertical: This is Life, a Social-Media Portrait of China (opens in new tab)

In China, over half of all internet-users watch vertical dramas: that is an audience of over 576 million people. Sun Hong’s Yānhuǒ Rénjiān (This Is Life, 2020) is the first and, to my knowledge, only vertical documentary that has received a theatrical release in the country. A portrait of ordinary Chinese life stitched together from […]