1966, My Time in The Red Guards
Wu Wenguang | 1993 | 140 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
Five former red guards recall the culture revolution that took place in China in the 1960s.
Awards:
Winner of the Ogawa Shinzuke Award, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan, 1993
Winner of Best Film Award at Taiwan Film Festival, Taiwan, 1993
Screenings:
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan, 1993
Taiwan Film Festival, Taiwan, 1993
Berlin International Film Festival, Germany, 1993
The Hong Kong International Film Festival, Hong Kong, 1993
Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Netherlands, 1993
Sydney Contemporary Museum, Australia, 1993
International Documentary Conference, Sydney, Australia, 1993
Lincoln Center “China’s New Film,” New York, USA, 1994
Brussels Art Festival, Brussels, Belgium, 1994
Tage Des un Abhangigen Films, Augsburg, Germany, 1994
Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore, 1996
New China/New Vision, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1997
New China/New Vision, Los Angeles, USA, 1997
About the Filmmaker:
Wu Wenguang was born in 1956 in Yunnan Province in southwest China. After graduating from high school in 1974, Wu was sent to the countryside where he worked as a farmer for a year and as an elementary school teacher for three years. From 1978 to 1982 he studied Chinese literature in Yunnan University. After receiving his Bachelor’s degree, Wu taught at a junior high school for three years. He was then a journalist for a TV station for another three years. In 1988 Wu left television and moved to Beijing to be an independent documentary filmmaker, freelance writer and creator and producer of Living Dance Studio, a dance performance group. In 2005 Wu co-founded the independent art space Caochangdi Workstation (CCD Workstation) with his partner Wen Hui. He is the curator of the annual film and dance festivals Crossing Festival and May Festival. He is also the curator of the China Village Documentary Project, which began in 2005.
His other films are:
Bumming in Beijing (1990), At Home in The World (1995), Dance With Farm Workers (2001), Jiang Hu: Life on the Road (1999),
You Are Called Outlander (2003), Fuck Cinema (2005), Bare Your Stuff (2010), Treatment (2010).
| Information | |
| Online Viewing | Yes |
| Available Subtitle | English |
| Length | 140 mins |
| Production Year | 1993 |
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