The World (Outside) 

USA, 2013, 14min.

Shot in a theme park in southwest China where little people work as performers in a fantastical variety show, the documentary captures the rhythms of everyday life as the mundane and the surreal overlap in the spaces of work and home. As a meditation on performance, the body, and imaginings of life elsewhere, The World (Outside) explores the relationship between a controversial institution of entertainment and its melancholy backstage.


director.......................................... Benny Shaffer