Wu Wenguang

The Monument (2021)

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 kind of ...

Autobiography: Evidence (2019)

The third part in Wu Wenguang's Autobiography film series. ...

Autobiography: Struggles (2018)

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 kept," t ...

Between (2017)

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). ...

Investigating My Father (2016)

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 investigating ...

Because of Hunger: Diary 1 by Wu (2013)

The film is about the first two years in the Memory Project. All images was from my angle with my camera. ...

Revolution in Baiyun Village (2012)

Jia Zhitan investigates the One Strike-Three Anti campaign in his village. ...

Huamulin 2012 (2012)

A documentary following the filmmaker, Li Xinmin, who went back to her hometown and interviewed the elders in her village who lived through the Great Famine during 1959- 1961. The residents of this village Huamulin are still isolated. ...

Luo Village: Pitiless Earth and Sky (2012)

During Luo Bing's second return to his village, Ren Dingqi finally accepts to showhim his memoirs. ...

Shuangjing Village, I'm your grandson (2012)

A documentary following the filmmaker, Shu Qiao, who went back to his hometown of Shuangjing, a rural village in Hunan Province. He interviewed the elders in his village who lived through the Great Famine during 1959-1961. ...

Attacking Zhanggao Village (2012)

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. ...

Children's Village (2012)

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. ...

Back to Huamulin (2011)

Li Xinmin's first return to her village in Yunnan province. Alongside interviews with some village elders, the film reveals the filmmaker's family and their views on her film project. ...

Luo Village: I and Ren Dingqi (2011)

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. ...

Satiated Village (2011)

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 question is ...

Bare Your Stuff (2010)

Wu Wenguang's comment: This film looks at my relationship with the village filmmakers— or I might say, how we met and got entangled. The film's material comes from video recordings of the Villager Documentary Project from 2005-2009. It is about how these ...

Treatment (2010)

Treatment is one of two films Wu Wenguang released in 2010 after a 5-year absence. The film deals with Wu's memories of his deceased mother and his search for emotional healing. ...

My Grandpa's Winter (2010)

A documentary film following the daily life of director's grandfather in the winter of 2011. ...

China Villager Documentary Project: China Village Self-Governance Film Project (2005)

Filmmakers Wu Wenguang and Jian Yi trained 10 villagers from across China to make films documenting electoral processes in their home villages. Pursuing the ideal that anyone can become a documentary filmmaker, this project sparked a new model of Chinese p ...

Fuck Cinema (2004)

This documentary shows how different young people try to realize their dreams to become famous through the film industry. ...

You Are Called Outlander (2003)

The film is about the life of farmer workers in Beijing, including search the "outlander" how to been in Beijing. ...

Dance with Farm Workers (2002)

Search for Hamlet (2002)

A journey of the filmmaker, Wu Wenguang, somewhere in China, and his view of public life in the cities and villagers. He meets some of his friends, a gay man in Beijing, and a lesbian couple in Shanghai. ...

Jiang Hu: Life on the Road (1999)

A documentary of the Yuanda Song and Dance Tent Show, a wandering troupe from the countryside of Henan Province that is on the road all four seasons of the year. ...

At Home in the World (1995)

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 and the ...

1966, My Time in the Red Guards (1993)

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 carried f ...

Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers (1990)

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. ...

The Chinese (1989)

Originally produced in 1988 and 1989, but blocked from being released after June 4th. A large-scale Chinese documentary series that spanned 100s of interviews in nearly 20 provinces, cities, and autonomous regions. It was completed in early 1989, and each ...

Luo Luo’s Fear (2021)

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. ...

The Monument (2021)

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 kind of ...

Autobiography: Evidence (2019)

The third part in Wu Wenguang's Autobiography film series. ...

Haze and Fog (2013)

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 society. ...

Fuck Cinema (2004)

This documentary shows how different young people try to realize their dreams to become famous through the film industry. ...

Sweat (2002)

Never broadcasted feature film by Chinese documentary filmmaker Kang Jianning. ...

A Film Is Stopped (1994)

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 of a ...