How Jia Zhangke’s film Caught by the Tides uses 20 years of footage to capture a changing China
- Written by Thomas Moran, Lecturer in the Department of English, Creative Writing and Film, University of Adelaide

Chinese independent director Jia Zhangke’s new film Caught by the Tides, now in select Australian cinemas, provides a unique vision of China’s rapid social transformation in the 21st century.
Using a combination of documentary footage and scenes shot by Jia over the past 20 years during the making of his earlier films, Caught...