Filmmakers
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...
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...
Chen Xiaosong | 2008 | 39 min. | English subtitles
Film Synopsis:
Along the tracks, the camera glides between two so-called marginal figures: a young man who is looking forward to marrying a Sichuanese woman and going to Beijing to find a job in a restaurant, and an old retired soldier who passionately voices his revolutionary aspirations while he inspects his Retired Milit...
Film Synopsis:
Along the tracks, the camera glides between two so-called marginal figures: a young man who is looking forward to marrying a Sichuanese woman and going to Beijing to find a job in a restaurant, and an old retired soldier who passionately voices his revolutionary aspirations while he inspects his Retired Milit...
Wu Wenguang | 1995 | 80 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
This film picks up with the five artists featured in Wu’s previous film, Bumming in Beijing. The film was shot between 1993 and 1995. In the five years since they appeared in Bumming in Beijing, the five artists have scattered to the four corners of the world. The film marks the changes in their lives and the anxieties, cont...
Synopsis:
This film picks up with the five artists featured in Wu’s previous film, Bumming in Beijing. The film was shot between 1993 and 1995. In the five years since they appeared in Bumming in Beijing, the five artists have scattered to the four corners of the world. The film marks the changes in their lives and the anxieties, cont...
Liu Heng | 2008 | 120 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
Daxian is located deep in the Daba Mountains in the northeast of Sichuan Province. In fact, Daxian is the city's former name. It was changed because "xian" means town and the residents wanted it to be a city. They finally agreed on Dachuan, which is what it is called today. This film follows a group of students at the Railway Sc...
Synopsis:
Daxian is located deep in the Daba Mountains in the northeast of Sichuan Province. In fact, Daxian is the city's former name. It was changed because "xian" means town and the residents wanted it to be a city. They finally agreed on Dachuan, which is what it is called today. This film follows a group of students at the Railway Sc...
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...
Tian Gebing | 2005 | 100 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
This film is named after a men’s club in Beijing. The setting is a three-bedroom apartment in Beijing and the tenants are a group of men and women who enjoy each other’s company. They came to Beijing with ambitious dreams and hungry for opportunity. Most of them were born in the 1980s. This generation lives could be ...
Synopsis:
This film is named after a men’s club in Beijing. The setting is a three-bedroom apartment in Beijing and the tenants are a group of men and women who enjoy each other’s company. They came to Beijing with ambitious dreams and hungry for opportunity. Most of them were born in the 1980s. This generation lives could be ...
Wu Wenguang | 2010 | 169 min. | English subtitles
Filmmaker’s Words:
This film is about how I met and became entangled with some villagers who started making films. I have been exploring the personal documentary, and I’ve made this film in the first person, a direct line from me to the audience. It uses footage of the Villager Documentary Project taken between 2005 and ...
Filmmaker’s Words:
This film is about how I met and became entangled with some villagers who started making films. I have been exploring the personal documentary, and I’ve made this film in the first person, a direct line from me to the audience. It uses footage of the Villager Documentary Project taken between 2005 and ...
Feng Yan. | 2007 | 114 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
The Three Gorges Dam, supposedly the largest hydroelectric dam in the world, will be completed in 2009 after fifteen years of construction. Tied up in its story are countless brave people. Was Bing Ai counted in the governments’ tally of 1.13 million residents who must relocate? The village cadres told her to leave but she refused...
Synopsis:
The Three Gorges Dam, supposedly the largest hydroelectric dam in the world, will be completed in 2009 after fifteen years of construction. Tied up in its story are countless brave people. Was Bing Ai counted in the governments’ tally of 1.13 million residents who must relocate? The village cadres told her to leave but she refused...
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 ...
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 ...
Chen Zhong | 2005 | 80 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
The emergence of China’s independent filmmaking movement took place soon after the ’89 Tiananmen Square Incident. This documentary includes on-camera interviews with China’s well-known independent filmmakers, such as Jia Zhangke, Wang Xiaoshuai, Zhang Yuan, Wu Wenguang, and several others. These directors opened up and c...
Synopsis:
The emergence of China’s independent filmmaking movement took place soon after the ’89 Tiananmen Square Incident. This documentary includes on-camera interviews with China’s well-known independent filmmakers, such as Jia Zhangke, Wang Xiaoshuai, Zhang Yuan, Wu Wenguang, and several others. These directors opened up and c...
Wu Wenguang | 2001 | 60 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
Dance with Farm Workers is a documentary about an avant-garde dance performance of the same name. The performance featured thirty Beijing farm workers from the poorer regions of Sichuan Province. Rehearsals and the performance took place in the production hall of a former textile factory that was tagged for demolition. T...
Synopsis:
Dance with Farm Workers is a documentary about an avant-garde dance performance of the same name. The performance featured thirty Beijing farm workers from the poorer regions of Sichuan Province. Rehearsals and the performance took place in the production hall of a former textile factory that was tagged for demolition. T...
Fan Jian | 2006 | 118 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
They have farmer blood but their souls long for the cities. They have returned to their villages hundreds of times but they have also escaped hundreds of times. They struggle hard for a new identity but always return to their origins. Where do they belong? They don’t know.
Like other urban centers, Beijing is a pl...
Synopsis:
They have farmer blood but their souls long for the cities. They have returned to their villages hundreds of times but they have also escaped hundreds of times. They struggle hard for a new identity but always return to their origins. Where do they belong? They don’t know.
Like other urban centers, Beijing is a pl...
Wang Hongjun | 2008 | 105 min. | English subtitles
About the film:
A small clinic, an elderly doctor, a crowd of people all looking for one thing: a cure. The filmmaker uses a single camera position to capture one hundred patients that came to see Dr. Jia in 2008.
Filmmaker’s Statement:
In the summer of 2006 I returned home to recover from an operati...
About the film:
A small clinic, an elderly doctor, a crowd of people all looking for one thing: a cure. The filmmaker uses a single camera position to capture one hundred patients that came to see Dr. Jia in 2008.
Filmmaker’s Statement:
In the summer of 2006 I returned home to recover from an operati...
Cong Feng | 2007 | 215 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
Gansu Province is an arid, mountainous region. In Huangyangchuan Town, Ma Bingcheng is a respected local doctor. Patients, most of them farmers, come every day to his small clinic. They chat and gossip while they wait. In the springtime, workers see the doctor before they leave as migrant workers. Some women discuss a man that ...
Synopsis:
Gansu Province is an arid, mountainous region. In Huangyangchuan Town, Ma Bingcheng is a respected local doctor. Patients, most of them farmers, come every day to his small clinic. They chat and gossip while they wait. In the springtime, workers see the doctor before they leave as migrant workers. Some women discuss a man that ...
