Filmmakers:
NONG Ke, Male, aged 59, an ethnic Zhuang farmer from Guangxi province, film title: 《A Welfare Council 》
ZHANG Huancai, Male, aged 45, a Shaanxi native, film title: 《A Futile Election》,
ZHOU Cengjia, Male, aged 42, a farmer from Hu’nan, film title:《Village Leader Wu Aiguo》
SHAO Yuzhen, Female, aged 55, a farmer from Beijing, film title: 《I Film My Village》
NI Lianghui, Male, aged 35, a Hu’bei native, currently running a barber shop in the coastal province of Guangdong, film title: 《Returning Home for the Election》
CILI Zhuoma, Female, aged 24, an ethnic Tibetan living in Yunnan, film title: 《The Holy Mountain》,
JIA Zhitan, Male, aged 55, a farmer from Hu’nan, film title: 《Quarry》,
FU Jiachong, Male, aged 49, a village Communist Party chairman from He’nan, film title: 《Our Village Committee》,
WANG Wei, Male, aged 28, a farmer from Shandong, film title: 《Allocation of Land》,
YI Chujian, Male, aged 26, a villager from Zhejiang, currently making a living by doing camerawork for a wedding video studio in a nearby town, film title: 《Did You Vote in the Our Village’s Last Election?》
Length: 95 min
Production: 2005
Curator: Wu Wenguang
Coordinator: Jian Yi
Introduction of Project:
This video is a collection of ten short documentary films, each of ten minutes in length. They are ten funny films made by ten amateur villager filmmakers (age ranging from 24 to 59) selected from around China who are eager to discover their home villages through the DV lens and to tell stories and be heard, for the first time in their lives.
