Building Archaeology
2011, Chinese. Directed by Xu Ruotao.
The documentary Building Archeology (jiànzhú kǎo) (2011) considers the more recent past. It’s 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.
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- 0h 16m
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- Chinese
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- 1 January 2011
- Original title
- 建筑考
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- China
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Building Archaeology isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 2011. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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Who directed Building Archaeology?
Building Archaeology (2011) was directed by Xu Ruotao.