Michael Guarneri just dropped his new book "Conversations with WANG Bing" (2024), on his interviews with the Chinese documentarian between 2014 and 2023, that you may buy online here . Here is an open letter from the interviewer to the interviewee, that Michael shared with me, for this blog : A real human Bing, and a real hero Dear Wang Bing, hello, this is Michael Guarneri, I am the annoying Italian guy who has been obsessing about little details in your films and asking you a million rambling questions throughout the years. Your work is so important for humanity, and I know you are a very busy man, so I truly appreciate that you took the time to answer my questions, especially the stupid ones that somebody may call “blatant provocations of a foreign agent from the collective West”. I am sorry that I had to insist on certain topics, but there were things that I really wanted to understand and make other people understand. I guess I am the kind of person who just doesn