Zhang Mengqi Trailers
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Zhang Mengqi was born in 1987. Lives in Beijing and Diaoyutai Village(Hubei) She graduated from the Dance Academy of Minzu University of China in 2008. Since 2009, she has been a resident filmmaker and choreographer at Caochangdi Workstation in Beijing. In 2010 she participated in The Folk Memory Project.
Since 2010, Mengqi has made nine feature-length documentaries filmed in her father’s village in Hebei Province, known as her ‘self-portrait series’, a decade-long creation between exploring history and illuminating reality, and a film a year, the formation of a unique group of works.Her films have been selected by Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Cinéma du Réel, Visions du Réel, RIDM etc.
Her first film ‘Self-Portrait with Three Women’ was selected as ‘Ten Best Documentary Films’ in the 8th China Independent Film Festival. Her latest film “Self-Portrait: Sphinx in 47 KM” Won the “White Goose Award” in DMZ International Documentary Film Festival.
Her choreographic work was performed in Foundation CULTURESCAPES(Switzerland), Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis (France), ImPuls Tanz (Vienna), Eurokaz (Croatia), etc. As a founding member of The Folk Memory Project, Mengqi also participated in the creation of collective theater works, Memory: Hunger (2010), Memory: Monument (2012), Reading Hunger (2016), Reading Father(2019).
Most Popular Zhang Mengqi Trailers
Total trailers found: 19
07 October 2021
The newest instalment in a series set in a small village in a mountainous region in China. In the winter marking ten years since the director began filming, she tries to get a new building constructed in the village.
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.
04 October 2023
As coronavirus begins to sweep the globe, Zhang returns to her father’s village with her camera, seeking to understand where the extraordinary phenomenon might sit in the grand palimpsest of China’s history.
18 April 2018
In the Chinese countryside, an old woman tells the story of her deceased son, while a little girl paints her dreams on the walls of the house.
23 August 2014
The fifth title in Zhang Mengqi's Self-Portrait film series.
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".
12 May 2022
When the pandemic broke out, the filmmaker began to document the outside world from her window. A public space, Blue House, was finally realised but made empty for an indefinite time.
20 September 2019
The village in the mountains of China that the director has long made the subject of her camera. The traces of memories and landscapes that fade away before one’s eyes.
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.
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 2017
The first part of Wu Wenguang's Autobiography film series.
01 March 2013
After Self-Portrait: At 47 Km, Zhang Mengqi pursues her contributions to the Folk Memory Project, relentlessly questioning the survivors of the 1959-61 famine in her village, “47 kilometres” (47 km from Suizhou, in Hebei Province).
01 January 2015
This village is located 47 KM from Suizhou, Hubei Province. Her grandfather passed away, and what does the village mean to her without him? She started to search for stories about death in the village: some are of unnatural causes, some are bizarre, and some are results of hatred.
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.
10 October 2016
Between 1959 and 1961, more than 35 million people starved to death because of Mao’s Great Leap Forward policies.
01 June 2019
The third part in Wu Wenguang's Autobiography film series.
01 November 2013
This is the fourth film in my self-portrait series. I went back to the village named 47 km in 2013. My grandfather was critically ill, and I accompanied him like accompanied the death.
25 October 2010
The 23-year-old director, fresh out of university, lives at home with her mother and grandmother. She rebels against them but also tries to understand the generation gap between them.
23 December 2011
The young filmmaker returns to her village to interview the elderly on the Chinese famine of 1958-60.
