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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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
Song Tian | 2008 | 69 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis :
In 1934 Japanese pathfinders founded Tianli Village and built Tianli Shrine in the suburbs of Harbin City. Seventy-three years later, elementary and middle school students of Daowai District of Harbin City arrived for a three-day training camp. In an effort for “quality education,” the children are directed to “remember n...
Synopsis :
In 1934 Japanese pathfinders founded Tianli Village and built Tianli Shrine in the suburbs of Harbin City. Seventy-three years later, elementary and middle school students of Daowai District of Harbin City arrived for a three-day training camp. In an effort for “quality education,” the children are directed to “remember n...
Wu Wenguang | 2005 | 150 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
This documentary shows how young people try to realize their dreams or find fame through the film industry. A central characters is Wang, a 28 year-old man from the countryside. His love for the cinema brought him to Beijing but all he can do is line up outside the gate of a film studio every day in hopes of la...
Synopsis:
This documentary shows how young people try to realize their dreams or find fame through the film industry. A central characters is Wang, a 28 year-old man from the countryside. His love for the cinema brought him to Beijing but all he can do is line up outside the gate of a film studio every day in hopes of la...
Mao Ran | 2001 | 82 min. | Chinese subtitles
Synopsis：
The dialogs were filmed on Halloween in 2001 outside the Wonderland Bar. Nan, the owner of the bar, asked us to throw a rock and roll party. When it was heating up inside I went out to catch a breath. There in the cool autumn air were some folks chatting. All of a sudden I started filming them with my newly purchased...
Synopsis：
The dialogs were filmed on Halloween in 2001 outside the Wonderland Bar. Nan, the owner of the bar, asked us to throw a rock and roll party. When it was heating up inside I went out to catch a breath. There in the cool autumn air were some folks chatting. All of a sudden I started filming them with my newly purchased...
Ai Dan | 2003 | 25 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis：
Everyone remembers when SARS, an epidemic disease, broke out in China in May and June of 2003. Beijing was one of the most seriously infectious areas. For the first time Beijingers were not welcome other places. Even worse, if they knew you lived in Beijing the local sanitary department would detain you.
When most...
Synopsis：
Everyone remembers when SARS, an epidemic disease, broke out in China in May and June of 2003. Beijing was one of the most seriously infectious areas. For the first time Beijingers were not welcome other places. Even worse, if they knew you lived in Beijing the local sanitary department would detain you.
When most...
Wu Wenguang | 1999 | 113 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
Directly translated, “jiang hu” means “river” or “lake.” In Chinese it refers to life away from home or being “on the road.” This film is about the story of a traveling song and dance troupe of farmers. The boss is Old Liu. He got his two sons, their girlfriends and some young farmers to join and bo...
Synopsis:
Directly translated, “jiang hu” means “river” or “lake.” In Chinese it refers to life away from home or being “on the road.” This film is about the story of a traveling song and dance troupe of farmers. The boss is Old Liu. He got his two sons, their girlfriends and some young farmers to join and bo...
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 ...
Xie Lina | 2007 | 85 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis：
Searching for truth in the forgotten. I know that emotions are often concealed for convenience’s sake or to make life easier but I hope to put my emotions out for the public to see.
Mom is my first long documentary film. For many years, my mom worked hard to raise me and fill all my needs, and I always wan...
Synopsis：
Searching for truth in the forgotten. I know that emotions are often concealed for convenience’s sake or to make life easier but I hope to put my emotions out for the public to see.
Mom is my first long documentary film. For many years, my mom worked hard to raise me and fill all my needs, and I always wan...
Zou Xueping | 2008 | 65 min. | English subtitles
About the film:
This documentary film is about my plain, ordinary mother. She lives in a rural village where she raises pigs and works the land. She also takes care of my grandmother. She doesn’t have big ideals or lofty goals and desires nothing more than to be content and care for her family. My mother is uneducated but her views a...
About the film:
This documentary film is about my plain, ordinary mother. She lives in a rural village where she raises pigs and works the land. She also takes care of my grandmother. She doesn’t have big ideals or lofty goals and desires nothing more than to be content and care for her family. My mother is uneducated but her views a...