Cao Fei Movies

Swiss collector Uli Sigg has played in the time of economic opening of China by Mao an essential role, which is still continuing. To better...

MEISHI STREET shows ordinary citizens taking a stand against the planned destruction of their homes for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In order to widen...

Nova follows the story of a computer scientist engaged in a secretive international project; as part of his experiments he uses his son, who is...

In 2021, a young female worker, a male worker and a cute AI robot are working in a large automated logistics centre “Asia One Unmanned...

Once the site of China's early tech industry, Jiuxiangiao is now a 'shanty area' slated for urban renewal. Residents recall how the area grew into an...

RMB City project is developed by Cao Fei

Model figures and plastic buildings in an imagined post-apocalyptic metropolis.

RMB City was a fictional Chinese city constructed in the online virtual world Second Life. RMB City opened to the 'public' in 2009 and remained...

San Yuan Li, the collaborative project by Ou Ning, Cao Fei, and the members of U-thèque Organization, is a case study of the typical...

The two protagonists – an architect and a prisoner living in parallel realities in the present time and an ambiguous distanced past,...

In Milkman which was made in 2005, Cao Fei sorrowfully captures the daily life of the nominal main character who is a milkman. He is sprawled all...

Darkly humorous reinterpretation of the zombie film, set in Beijing. Here the undead are real estate agents, nouveau riche businessmen, security...

HIP HOP is a music which humorously expresses negative energy, it is popular yet it is belongs more to the public; Hip Hop comes from the street,...

This video work is part of the acclaimed RMB City series which uses the idea of the ideal city as a framework for examining aspects of Chinese and...

The film is for the 1st Moscow Biennale. The director's father, Cao Chongen, is a famous sculpture artist. Ever since his juvenile time, he has been...

Cao Fei recorded her experiences within the online social platform Second Life. The result is a wistful, surreal vision of an alternative reality...

In Cao Fei’s most recent video work, East Wind (2011), a dinky blue Chinese truck with the face of Thomas the Tank Engine beetles around the...

Short documentary about people involved in Cosplay.

Shadow Life, evokes folklore and communist festivals. The vignettes are performed by shadow puppets; the form of the hand is a synecdoche for the...

People dressed up as dogs make weird things.