Jia Zhangke’s short film calls attention to Chinese pollution
A couple kisses on a hill next to a billowing smokestack. A child draws a sun on a dusty car windshield. Celebrated Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke recently released Smog Journeys, a short film sponsored by Greenpeace East Asia that’s meant to mobilize the Chinese people and government to up the anti on the nation’s “war on pollution.” …