Zhang Mengqi
Zhang Mengqi was born in 1987. She graduated from the Dance Academy of China Minorities University in 2008.
She is now a freelance dancer in Beijing. She has created two dance pieces Self-portrait and Dialogue with My Mother
and Self-portrait and Sexual Self-education. Her first documentary film is entitled Self-portrait and Three Women.
Self-Portrait: At 47 KM is her second film.
Zhang Mengqi | 2010 | 70 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
This year I turned twenty-three, the age when women become pregnant with dreams. Yet, while nursing our own dreams, we carry the burdens of two other women’s dreams as well. This film began with myself and then branched to my mother and her mother, these women who grew up in such different times. Three generations of ...
Synopsis:
This year I turned twenty-three, the age when women become pregnant with dreams. Yet, while nursing our own dreams, we carry the burdens of two other women’s dreams as well. This film began with myself and then branched to my mother and her mother, these women who grew up in such different times. Three generations of ...
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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