Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers
Wu Wenguang | 1990 | 70 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
The film is an account of the wanderings of five young artists who recently came 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 film was shot over two years. By the end of shooting in 1990, only one of the five artists was still living in Beijing. The other four had emigrated to Europe or the United States.
Screenings:
Hong Kong International Film Festival, 1991
Fukuoka Asia Film Festival, Japan, 1991
Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Japan, 1991
Montreal International Film Festival, Montreal, Canada, 1991
Hawaii International Film Festival, Hawaii, USA, 1991
London International Film Festival, England, 1991
Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore, 1992
Louvre Cinema, Paris, France, 1993
“Chinese New Films,” Berlin, Germany, 1993
Festival De Theatre Des Ameriques, Montreal, Canada, 1993
Sydney Contemporary Museum, Australia, 1993
Asahi TV Station, Japan, 1993
Brussels Art Festival, Belgium, 1994
“Chinese independent Films” in ICA Cinema, London, 1995
Wien International Film Festival, Austria, 1996
International Documentary Film Festival, Lisbon, Portugal, 1996
New China/New Vision, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 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: At Home in The World (1995), Dance With Farm Workers (2001), Jiang Hu: Life on the Road (1999), 1966, My Time in The Red Guards (1993), You Are Called Outlander (2003), Fuck Cinema (2005), Bare Your Stuff (2010), Treatment (2010).
| Information | |
| Online Viewing | Yes |
| Available Subtitle | English, Chinese |
| Length | 70 mins |
| Production Year | 1990 |
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