“Everyone is trying to find that new Chinese voice,” muses architect Lyndon Neri in this meditative documentary by director Thomas Rhazi. ChinaNOW spotlights the fertile state of creativity in the world’s most populous country, through interviews with luminaries of Chinese art, publishing and architecture. Neri appears with his wife and professional partner, Rosanna Hu, alongside Jérôme Sans, co-founder of Beijing consultancy Perfect Crossovers and former Director of the city’s Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, and Shaway Yeh, the Group Style Editorial Director of Modern Media Group whose flagship title, Modern Weekly, boasts a wider circulation than the Chinese edition of Vogue. Shot in Shanghai and Beijing, the smoggy skies and steel-and-glass skyscrapers articulate the enormous scale and rapid pace of China’s development, yet the architecture picked out here offers a sanctuary amidst the confusion. For Neri & Hu’s award-winning boutique hotel The Waterhouse, the architects embrace the public nature of traditional Shanghai lane houses, while collective living is a feature of the Ai Weiwei-designed Caochangdi village in Beijing, where a thriving hub of artists live and work alongside farmers and migrant workers. Yet despite the country’s budding energy and certain creative freedoms, China itself is unknowable for the artist, according to Yeh. “It’s a place that’s still in flux,” she says during today’s short. “It’s constantly reshaping.”