2010
Chinese documentary 2010
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 ...
Leslie Tai | 2010 | 109 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
Throughout my growing up in America, my Chinese grandmother scavenged through the bags of eager cast-offs that my mother set aside for donation. Over the years, she has rescued nearly every single article of clothing I have worn since I was born. Grandma’s vintage clothing collection is spread over eight rooms, three countr...
Synopsis:
Throughout my growing up in America, my Chinese grandmother scavenged through the bags of eager cast-offs that my mother set aside for donation. Over the years, she has rescued nearly every single article of clothing I have worn since I was born. Grandma’s vintage clothing collection is spread over eight rooms, three countr...
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 ...
Zou Xueping | 2010 | 76 min. | English subtitles
Filmmaker’s Words:
I was born and raised in the village. Since 2008, I have begun to document my life. Slowly, I began to film my home village. This is my second documentary and it’s about old people. One woman, nearing eighty, is living out the last two years of her life. From when she is still using a cane to walk, to w...
Filmmaker’s Words:
I was born and raised in the village. Since 2008, I have begun to document my life. Slowly, I began to film my home village. This is my second documentary and it’s about old people. One woman, nearing eighty, is living out the last two years of her life. From when she is still using a cane to walk, to w...
Wu Wenguang | 2010 | 80 min. | English subtitles
Filmmaker’s Words:
This film came out of a desire to memorialize and explore my deep feelings for my mother, who passed away in 2007. My thoughts were constantly shifting and changing during this process. While sorting through footage that I filmed over a twelve-year period, I saw subtleties that I had previously overlooked,...
Filmmaker’s Words:
This film came out of a desire to memorialize and explore my deep feelings for my mother, who passed away in 2007. My thoughts were constantly shifting and changing during this process. While sorting through footage that I filmed over a twelve-year period, I saw subtleties that I had previously overlooked,...
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