3. Beijing 2003
9,000 minutes (155 miles of film)
Beijing 2003 is number 3 on our list of the longest most meaningless movies in the world. Controversial Chinese artist Ai Weiwei began his documentary career with this 150-hour work, in which a camera simply travels along and records all the roads in a particular area of Beijing. China’s northern capital city is encircled by concentric ring roads that began centuries ago with the construction of a protective wall around the city, similar to many other Asian and European cities from the same time. As cities overflowed their original walls, new walls were built outside the old ones. Ai traveled Beijing’s fourth ring road and filmed the area it enclosed. Later in his career, he made films about the other ring roads.
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