Wu Wenguang Trailers
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Wu was born in south-western China’s Yunnan province in 1956. After graduating from high school in 1974, Wu was send to the countryside, where he worked as farmer for four year. Between 1978 and 1982, he studied Chinese Literature in Yunnan University. After the University, Wu worked as a teach at a junior high school for three years, and later, he worked in the television as a journalist for four years. Wu left the television, moved to Beijing in 1988 to be an independent documentary filmmaker, freelance writer and creator and producer of dance/theater.
Wu has completed documentaries: Bumming in Beijing (1990), 1966, My Time in the Red Guards (1993), Jiang Hu: Life on the Road (1999), Fuck Cinema (2005), Bare Your Staff (2010), Treating (2010), Because of Hunger (2013), Investigating My Father (2016), Autobiography: Pass Through (2017), Autobiography: Struggle (2018) Autobiography: Fear (2019), Riding Through (2020), and has screened in many film festivals in the world. Wu also has created some short video, which like Diary: Snow, 21 Nov, 1998 (1999), Public Space (2000), Search: Hamlet in China (2002).
Wu had been created in theater, which like Treating (2009), Memory: Hunger (2010), Investigating My Father (2013) and Reading Hunger (2016), Reading Father (2019)
Also Wu had some no-fiction books published (Bumming in Beijing, 1966, Revolution Scene, Report on Jianghu)
In 2005, Wu found the Village Documentary Project, and in 2010, found the Folk Memory Project .
Most Popular Wu Wenguang Trailers
Total trailers found: 36
03 October 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.
07 May 2016
My father was a landowner’s son and an ex-Kuomintang Air Force pilot, who remained in mainland China after 1949.
31 January 2025
“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.
01 January 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.
01 January 2002
A journey of the filmmaker, Wu Wenguang, somewhere in China, and his view of public life in the cities and villagers.
01 January 1994
The one directorial feature by Ning Dai, sister of 5th generation filmmaker Ning Ying and wife of 6th generation filmmaker Zhang Yuan.
27 August 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".
14 May 2013
The film is about the first two years in the Memory Project. All images was from my angle with my camera.
01 January 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.
01 January 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.
01 January 2012
A documentary following the filmmaker, Wang Hai'an, who went back to his hometown of Zhanggao Cun, a rural village in Shandong Province.
05 May 2003
The film is about the life of farmer workers in Beijing, including search the “outlander” how to been in Beijing.
01 January 2010
A documentary film following the daily life of director's grandfather in the winter of 2011. At 80 yi
01 January 2012
A documentary following the filmmaker, Shu Qiao, who went back to his hometown of Shuangjing, a rural village in Hunan Province.
15 June 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.
01 January 2011
It is the director's second documentary of "my village" series since she got involved with the "Folk Memory Project".
01 January 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.
01 January 2012
During Luo Bing's second return to his village, Ren Dingqi finally accepts to showhim his memoirs.
09 October 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.
12 July 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).
01 January 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.
01 January 2012
Zou Xueping continues to interview old people in her village, this time with the help of local children.
21 September 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.
01 January 2017
The first part of Wu Wenguang's Autobiography film series.
27 December 2002
Never broadcasted feature film by Chinese documentary filmmaker Kang Jianning.
01 January 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.
02 March 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.
31 December 2024
In 2022, while living and working in Hong Kong, Hester started writing daily about her experiences. The previous year, inspired by the weekly online film discussions at "Caochangdi Workstation," She finally took her neglected camera out of the closet and began capturing everything around her.
31 December 2004
This documentary shows how different young people try to realize their dreams to become famous through the film industry.
23 October 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.
01 December 2005
Filmmakers Wu Wenguang and Jian Yi trained 10 villagers from across China to make films documenting electoral processes in their home villages.
03 March 1995
A year after he made Bumming in Beijing, Wu Wenguang visited his main figures in Austria, France, Italy and the USA.
01 June 2019
The third part in Wu Wenguang's Autobiography film series.
01 January 2012
Jia Zhitan investigates the One Strike-Three Anti campaign in his village.
