The idea for “ Torino Shadow ” came to Jia Zhang-ke not while he was making a film, but while he was avoiding one. Exhausted from wandering the Museo Nazionale del Cinema in Turin, he would sink into a chair in the vast central lobby and simply listen to the voices drifting from the surrounding galleries, absorbing the atmosphere of the museum. “The starting point was to understand cinema from the perspective of an audience member, a cinephile – not as a filmmaker, but as a film lover,” Jia