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Chinese Independent Documentary --Village Documentary Project :
CIDFA030:
My Village in 2006 (Wang Wei)
Directors: Wang Wei
Length: 75min
Production Year: 2007
About the film and its director:
At the beginning of the film, Wang Wei shot his monologue in front of the camera. In this way, Wang Wei expressed his wish to intervene in village affairs with his digital video camera, document and interact with realities, rather than merely to complete a film production. The 30-year-old Wang Wei is one of the youngest participants of the Villager Documentary Project. Wang Wei was once an enlisted man. He decided to return to his home village after military service, hoping to make a difference in this impoverished village. Wang Wei has since been an active participant in the village’s public affairs and has devoted his time and energy to the disadvantaged people. There were promising and discouraging moments along the way. This new film captures these moments as well as the director’s emotional responses.
Director’s Statement:
Being a farmer myself, I know the stress under hardship which my fellow villagers endure and I have my share of helplessness as well. For Chinese farmers, Life is endless toil sustained by a meager diet. The farmers may seem to belong to our time, but in actual fact have fallen far behind in all senses. I strove to stay quiet while filming them in order to keep a record of their silent existence in this loud “harmonious Socialist society” of ours.
Director’s Bio:
Wang Wei, male, was born in 1977 into Guanyinsi Wangjia village of eastern China’s Shandong Province. He participated in the Villager Documentary Project in 2005 and completed his first documentary short Land Distribution. My Village in 2006 is Wang’s first feature-length documentary film.