2011
Chinese documentary 2011
Li Xinmin | 2011 | 75 min. | English subtitles
Filmmaker’s Words:
I grew up in Huamulin Village. In 2002, when I was fourteen years old, I left to earn money. Seven years later I returned to my village with a video camera, which I had never used before. I tried to film my life in the village and explore my connection to this place. I also interviewed the village elders ab...
Filmmaker’s Words:
I grew up in Huamulin Village. In 2002, when I was fourteen years old, I left to earn money. Seven years later I returned to my village with a video camera, which I had never used before. I tried to film my life in the village and explore my connection to this place. I also interviewed the village elders ab...
Jia Zhitan | 2011 | 80 min. | English subtitles
Filmmaker’s words:
In 1970, I was nineteen. In the village where I lived then and now, some villagers accused others of being counterrevolutionary. Their accusations were completely fabricated. More than eighty people were involved in the case. Now, forty years later, the villagers don’t mention it (except a very few who st...
Filmmaker’s words:
In 1970, I was nineteen. In the village where I lived then and now, some villagers accused others of being counterrevolutionary. Their accusations were completely fabricated. More than eighty people were involved in the case. Now, forty years later, the villagers don’t mention it (except a very few who st...
Wen Hui | 2011 | 75 min. | English subtitles
Filmmaker’s words:
While searching for the memories that the rest of my family has forgotten, I found my third grandmother. She is my only living relative of my grandparents’ generation. She is my father’s aunt, my great-aunt, but no one ever mentioned her to me. Last winter I discovered her in a village in the mountains of...
Filmmaker’s words:
While searching for the memories that the rest of my family has forgotten, I found my third grandmother. She is my only living relative of my grandparents’ generation. She is my father’s aunt, my great-aunt, but no one ever mentioned her to me. Last winter I discovered her in a village in the mountains of...
Luo Bing | 2011 | 80 min. | English subtitles
Director’s Statement:
This is my first documentary, and marks the start of my new life after graduating from college a year ago. It is a “beginning” in that I went back to Luo Village in Zhuzhou in Hunan Province where I was born and raised. My return was concurrent with the “Folk Memory Project.” I began interviewing ...
Director’s Statement:
This is my first documentary, and marks the start of my new life after graduating from college a year ago. It is a “beginning” in that I went back to Luo Village in Zhuzhou in Hunan Province where I was born and raised. My return was concurrent with the “Folk Memory Project.” I began interviewing ...
Jia Nannan | 2011 | 30 min. | English subtitles
Filmmaker’s Words:
I felt I should film my grandfather in order to try to understand him better. I never thought about how my grandfather spent his winters. And now, after making the film, I know more. I know more about his thoughts. About The Filmmaker:
Jia Nannan was born&n...
Filmmaker’s Words:
I felt I should film my grandfather in order to try to understand him better. I never thought about how my grandfather spent his winters. And now, after making the film, I know more. I know more about his thoughts. About The Filmmaker:
Jia Nannan was born&n...
Jia Zhitan | 2011 | 75 min. | Chinese subtitles
Filmmaker’s Words:
In 2009 I filmed some happenings in my village. The reservoir was repaired. So was a road. These construction projects caused some problems. I stayed in my village and kept filming.
About the Filmmaker:
Jia Zhitan (b. 1950) is an orange farmer in Yuanyichang Villa...
Filmmaker’s Words:
In 2009 I filmed some happenings in my village. The reservoir was repaired. So was a road. These construction projects caused some problems. I stayed in my village and kept filming.
About the Filmmaker:
Jia Zhitan (b. 1950) is an orange farmer in Yuanyichang Villa...
Shao Yuzhen | 2011 | 75 min. | Chinese subtitles
Filmmaker’s words:
My Village 2009 is my fourth feature length film. It is about the new developments in my village. In 2009 my granddaughter was born, and the film documents these changes in my family. It also follows the other villagers, many of whom are busily building new houses. This year people are fighting over land. ...
Filmmaker’s words:
My Village 2009 is my fourth feature length film. It is about the new developments in my village. In 2009 my granddaughter was born, and the film documents these changes in my family. It also follows the other villagers, many of whom are busily building new houses. This year people are fighting over land. ...
Zhang Huancai | 2011 | 75 min. | Chinese subtitles
Filmmaker’s words:
This is my fourth feature-length documentary film. In 2009, some villagers keep on working in the fields while others leave to find work. The sonata of life perpetually repeats. Only the plants are persistent in their changes, and their brilliant colors tell the seasons’ stories. People are born, peopl...
Filmmaker’s words:
This is my fourth feature-length documentary film. In 2009, some villagers keep on working in the fields while others leave to find work. The sonata of life perpetually repeats. Only the plants are persistent in their changes, and their brilliant colors tell the seasons’ stories. People are born, peopl...
Zou Xueping | 2011 | 88 min. | English subtitles
Director’s Statement:
After I finished my documentary The Hungry Village, I returned to my hometown to screen it for my family. They were unanimously against it. All of them- my parents who were born in the 50s, and my brothers, born in the 70s and 90s—believed it was dangerous to investigate the famine in our village tha...
Director’s Statement:
After I finished my documentary The Hungry Village, I returned to my hometown to screen it for my family. They were unanimously against it. All of them- my parents who were born in the 50s, and my brothers, born in the 70s and 90s—believed it was dangerous to investigate the famine in our village tha...
Zhang Mengqi | 2011 | 77 min. | English subtitles
Director’s Statement:
This is my second self-portrait film. (The first is Self-portrait with Three Women.) It takes place in a village called 47 KM. It’s called this because it’s located at the 47th kilometer marker on the road from Suizhou in Hubei Province. My father was born there. He left when he was twenty years o...
Director’s Statement:
This is my second self-portrait film. (The first is Self-portrait with Three Women.) It takes place in a village called 47 KM. It’s called this because it’s located at the 47th kilometer marker on the road from Suizhou in Hubei Province. My father was born there. He left when he was twenty years o...
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