Zhang Huancai
Zhang Huancai, male, was born in 1960 into a village named Shijiazhai in Shaanxi Province. He is a farmer who occasionally leaves his village to find odd jobs in the city. Zhang joined Villager Documentary Project in 2006, with whose support he finished his first documentary short A Futile Election. My Village in 2006 is his first feature-length documentary film.
Zhang Huancai | 2007 | 90 min. | English subtitles
Synopsis:
Zhang culled this film from over one hundred hours of footage. We see the ups and downs, habits and rituals of his village. Zhang shares with us moments from his personal life as well. He bickers, teases, fights with his wife about the future. Director’s Statement:
Chickens always find their w...
Synopsis:
Zhang culled this film from over one hundred hours of footage. We see the ups and downs, habits and rituals of his village. Zhang shares with us moments from his personal life as well. He bickers, teases, fights with his wife about the future. Director’s Statement:
Chickens always find their w...
Zhang Huancai | 2008 | 80 min. | English subtitles
About The Film:
2007 wasn’t anything special. Us villagers continued to ravage the soil for food and scope the cities for ways to survive. We’re like a flock of chickens without a farmer to feed us. Our village is our roost while the cities’ promises of work and pay send us scattering to the winds.
In th...
About The Film:
2007 wasn’t anything special. Us villagers continued to ravage the soil for food and scope the cities for ways to survive. We’re like a flock of chickens without a farmer to feed us. Our village is our roost while the cities’ promises of work and pay send us scattering to the winds.
In th...
Zhang Huancai | 2009 | 139 min. | English subtitles
Filmmaker’s Words:
This film once again kicks off with my family. I would say this is a consistent style of my films, but perhaps that is a little far-fetched. But also, my 360-degree self-shot is my new “mark,” the one I am most pleased with. It really was 360 degrees, in order to size up my village from every angle....
Filmmaker’s Words:
This film once again kicks off with my family. I would say this is a consistent style of my films, but perhaps that is a little far-fetched. But also, my 360-degree self-shot is my new “mark,” the one I am most pleased with. It really was 360 degrees, in order to size up my village from every angle....
Zhang Huancai | 2011 | 75 min. | Chinese subtitles
Filmmaker’s words:
This is my fourth feature-length documentary film. In 2009, some villagers keep on working in the fields while others leave to find work. The sonata of life perpetually repeats. Only the plants are persistent in their changes, and their brilliant colors tell the seasons’ stories. People are born, peopl...
Filmmaker’s words:
This is my fourth feature-length documentary film. In 2009, some villagers keep on working in the fields while others leave to find work. The sonata of life perpetually repeats. Only the plants are persistent in their changes, and their brilliant colors tell the seasons’ stories. People are born, peopl...
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