Shao Yuzhen
Shao Yuzhen, female, born in 1950, has spent all her past years living and working in her home village of Shaziying, located in Beijing’s Shunyi District. Shao joined Caochangdi’s Villager Documentary Project in 2005 and completed a documentary short entitled I Film My Village. My Village in 2006 is Shao’s first feature-length documentary film .
Shao Yuzhen | 2007 | 80 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
This film vividly captures the life of an ordinary village woman as she juggles work, family life and social life in her village. In her unique style that she developed through making her first short documentary I Film My Village, Shao documents encounters with media professionals who come to report on her village. Shao edited...
Synopsis:
This film vividly captures the life of an ordinary village woman as she juggles work, family life and social life in her village. In her unique style that she developed through making her first short documentary I Film My Village, Shao documents encounters with media professionals who come to report on her village. Shao edited...
Shao Yuzhen | 2008 | 70 min. | English subtitles
About the Film:
This film records some of the changes that occurred in my village in 2007. I record the villagers hard at work, cultural events, folk customs, marriage and burial ceremonies, the annual land contracts, events sponsored by the village committee and the election that happens every four years. I also filmed my fam...
About the Film:
This film records some of the changes that occurred in my village in 2007. I record the villagers hard at work, cultural events, folk customs, marriage and burial ceremonies, the annual land contracts, events sponsored by the village committee and the election that happens every four years. I also filmed my fam...
Shao Yuzhen | 2009 | 70 min. | English subtitles
Filmmaker’s Words:
2008 was China’s “Year of the Olympics,” so of course my film My Village 2008 is related to this. My village is located in the suburbs of Beijing, and had its own Olympic activities, its own leg of the torch relay. Before the Olympics started, we received notices that all the gravesites beside the ma...
Filmmaker’s Words:
2008 was China’s “Year of the Olympics,” so of course my film My Village 2008 is related to this. My village is located in the suburbs of Beijing, and had its own Olympic activities, its own leg of the torch relay. Before the Olympics started, we received notices that all the gravesites beside the ma...
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. ...
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