J.P. Sniadecki, director of the unvarnished and raw Foreign Parts (see p. xx) treads similar ground in Chai-qian (“Demolition”) a subtitled documentary about a large industrial site in Chengdu, China. Here, poverty and wealth, change and stagnation intermingle side by side. Sniadecki, who’s pursuing his doctorate in anthropology at Harvard (and who is scheduled to attend screenings here) specializes in using the long take, letting the camera roll and roll and roll. Unhurried by the demands of modern attention spans, he’s trying to capture the texture of a demolition site. (USA/China | 62 mins) Read our story about this