the films of Wang Bing, many of them durational epics, frequently shown abroad in a gallery context and seen in his native China mostly on circulated samizdat-style files

The point of writing in the face of the problem was the point of samizdat, readers and writers meeting secretly all across the Soviet Union to share forbidden books

translated [...] into a samizdat

he photocopied and packaged it so many times that he felt like a publisher himself—or a printer, printing samizdat in a free country