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Chinese Independent Documentary
CIDFA001:
BUMMING IN BEIJING: THE LAST DREAMERS
Directors: Wu Wenguang
Length: 70 min
Production Year: 1990
Synopsis:
The film is an account of the wanderings of five young artists who came during that period to Beijing from the provinces. In order to pursue their own artistic dreams they rejected the state-assigned jobs and led a roomer’s life in Beijing without a fixed income or the security of a home. The shooting of this film was started in 1988 and completed in 1990. At the film’s end, only one of the five artists stayed on in Beijing, the other four have left China and went to Europe and the United States.
The film has been screened at:
In 1991, Hong Kong International Film Festival
Fukuoka Asia Film Festival (Japan)
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (Japan)
Montreal International Film Festival
Hawaii International Film Festival
London International Film Festival
In 1992, Singapore International Film Festival
In 1993, Louvre Cinema, Paris
“Chinese New Films” in Berlin
FESTIVAL DE THEATRE DES AMERIQUES in Montreal
Sydney Contemporary Museum
Asahi TV Station, Japan
In 1994, Brussels Art Festival
In 1995, “Chinese independent films” in ICA Cinema, London
In 1996, Wien International Film Festival, Austria
International Documentary Film Festival, Lisbon
In 1997, New China/New Vision, Museum of Modern Art, New York