Movies: Wu Wenguang
- 2025
Action 2024 (2025)
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“Action 2024” is a snapshot of independent filmmaker Wu Wenguang's experiences during the year 2024, which he spent in a village called Shijiawan growing rice, corn, and vegetables, and raising chickens, ducks, and geese. What sets this work apart fr...
- 1990
Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers (1990)
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A documentary following five young artists from around China, who travelled to Beijing in the 1980s to work as freelancers, exploring their lives, careers, and what aspirations they may have for the future....
- 2018
Autobiography: Struggles (2018)
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This film is the second segment of my “Autobiography Series.” From the moment when my mother disclosed a long kept secret, my birth was accompanied by many struggles for my mother. Those “struggles” include: during pregnancy, “should this child be ke...
- 1994
A Film Is Stopped (1994)
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The one directorial feature by Ning Dai, sister of 5th generation filmmaker Ning Ying and wife of 6th generation filmmaker Zhang Yuan. It follows a chaotic period in November of 1993, when production suddenly halted on Zhang Yuan's TV film adaptation...
- 2013
Haze and Fog (2013)
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Darkly humorous reinterpretation of the zombie film, set in Beijing. Here the undead are real estate agents, nouveau riche businessmen, security guards, manicurists, and sex workers seeking contact in an increasingly individualized, alienating societ...
- 2004
Fuck Cinema (2004)
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This documentary shows how different young people try to realize their dreams to become famous through the film industry....
- 1993
1966, My Time in the Red Guards (1993)
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More preoccupied with "history" than Wu's other works, My Time in the Red Guards is a record of his fascination with the missed moment, Mao's Cultural Revolution. In 1966, the Red Guards ironically represented the official avant-garde, a movement car...
- 2021
The Monument (2021)
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Edited together from materials taken from Caochangdi performances and activities between 2012-2013 and Wu Wenguang's own body camera record, this film can be regarded as a kind of "story follow-up" version of "Because of Hunger". In short, it is a ki...
- 2021
Luo Luo’s Fear (2021)
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Luo Luo’s intense fear of Covid-19 keeps her in the house during the pandemic. She listens to her father relate their family history, and spends time on Zoom with fellow Folk Memory Project members Wu Wenguang and Zhang Mengqi....
- 2017
Autobiography: Pass Through (2017)
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The first part of Wu Wenguang's Autobiography film series....
- 2013
Because of Hunger: Diary 1 by Wu (2013)
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The film is about the first two years in the Memory Project. All images was from my angle with my camera....
- 1995
At Home in the World (1995)
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A year after he made Bumming in Beijing, Wu Wenguang visited his main figures in Austria, France, Italy and the USA. The desire to escape everything, which was the most compelling feeling while they were still living in Beijing, has meanwhile faded a...
- 2012
Attacking Zhanggao Village (2012)
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A documentary following the filmmaker, Wang Hai'an, who went back to his hometown of Zhanggao Cun, a rural village in Shandong Province. He interviewed the elders in his village who lived through the Great Famine during 1959- 1961. His main purpose w...
- 2012
Revolution in Baiyun Village (2012)
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Jia Zhitan investigates the One Strike-Three Anti campaign in his village....
- 2016
Investigating My Father (2016)
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My father was a landowner’s son and an ex-Kuomintang Air Force pilot, who remained in mainland China after 1949. For survival, he tried to transform himself from a man of the ‘old society’ to a man of the ‘new society’. As his son, I started investig...
- 2012
Luo Village: Pitiless Earth and Sky (2012)
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During Luo Bing's second return to his village, Ren Dingqi finally accepts to showhim his memoirs....
- 2017
之间 (2017)
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Wu Wenguang revisits the artist Gao Bo more than 20 years after their earlier encounters which were documented in "Bumming in Beijing" (1990) and "At Home in the World" (1995)....
- 2011
Satiated Village (2011)
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It is the director's second documentary of "my village" series since she got involved with the "Folk Memory Project". She returned to her hometown to shoot footage, recording the realities she encountered in her search for memories. Her biggest quest...
- 2011
Luo Village: I and Ren Dingqi (2011)
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Luo Bing went back to Luo village, where he was born and grew up, and interviewed older people to know what happened during famine from 1959-1961. His neighbor, Ren Dingqi wrote a memoir, but he didn't really show it to Luo Bing. Luo Bing knew the hi...
- 2012
Children's Village (2012)
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Zou Xueping continues to interview old people in her village, this time with the help of local children. They start collecting names and money to erect a memorial for the victims of the famine....