Xiao Wu
With 2002's "Unknown Pleasures", Jia began a foray into filming in digital video (although his first experimentation with the medium came a year before, in 2001's short documentary "In Public"). "Xiao Wu", "Platform" and "Unknown Pleasures" are sometimes seen collectively as an informal trilogy of China's transition into modernity. "Unknown Pleasures", a meditation on the aimless "birth control" generation to emerge from the one-child policy helped cement Jia's reputation as a major voice in contemporary Chinese cinema. All this despite limited theatrical runs and obscurity in mainland China. Indeed, none of the three films was ever publicly released in the PRC, although unlicensed DVD sales were brisk, a fact commented on by Jia near the end of "Unknown Pleasures" when Xiao Wu, the character (Wang Hongwei again), attempts to buy the DVD of "Xiao Wu", the film.