Building Archaeology

The documentary Building Archeology jiànzhú kǎo 2011 considers the more recent past Its made up of three vignettes about different buildings in Beijing a museum an abandoned hospital and a detention center The latter two vignettes are especially interesting In the second a woman wanders around the ruins of a hospital built in a week to deal with the 2003 SARS outbreak The third concerns a former prisoner tracing out a map of the detention center where he was held in 2011