Caochangdi Workstation Movies

  • 2023
    Self-Portrait: 47 KM 2020

    Self-Portrait: 47 KM 2020

    Self-Portrait: 47 KM 2020

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    As coronavirus begins to sweep the globe, Zhang returns to her father’s village with her camera, seeking to understand where the extraordinary...

    Self-Portrait: 47 KM 2020
  • 2014
    Self-Portrait: Building the Bridge at 47KM

    Self-Portrait: Building the Bridge at 47KM

    Self-Portrait: Building the Bridge at 47KM

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    The fifth title in Zhang Mengqi's Self-Portrait film series.

    Self-Portrait: Building the Bridge at 47KM
  • 2021
    The Monument

    The Monument

    The Monument

    02021HD

    Edited together from materials taken from Caochangdi performances and activities between 2012-2013 and Wu Wenguang's own body camera record, this...

    The Monument
  • 2012
    Shuangjing Village, I'm your grandson

    Shuangjing Village, I'm your grandson

    Shuangjing Village, I'm your grandson

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    A documentary following the filmmaker, Shu Qiao, who went back to his hometown of Shuangjing, a rural village in Hunan Province. He interviewed the...

    Shuangjing Village, I'm your grandson
  • 2010
    Self-Portrait with Three Women

    Self-Portrait with Three Women

    Self-Portrait with Three Women

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    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...

    Self-Portrait with Three Women
  • 2013
    Self-Portrait: Dancing at 47KM

    Self-Portrait: Dancing at 47KM

    Self-Portrait: Dancing at 47KM

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    After Self-Portrait: At 47 Km, Zhang Mengqi pursues her contributions to the Folk Memory Project, relentlessly questioning the survivors of the...

    Self-Portrait: Dancing at 47KM
  • 2017
    Autobiography: Pass Through

    Autobiography: Pass Through

    Autobiography: Pass Through

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    The first part of Wu Wenguang's Autobiography film series.

    Autobiography: Pass Through
  • 2016
    Investigating My Father

    Investigating My Father

    Investigating My Father

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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...

    Investigating My Father
  • 2019
    Self-Portrait: Window in 47KM

    Self-Portrait: Window in 47KM

    Self-Portrait: Window in 47KM

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    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...

    Self-Portrait: Window in 47KM
  • 2021
    Self-Portrait: Fairy Tale in 47KM

    Self-Portrait: Fairy Tale in 47KM

    Self-Portrait: Fairy Tale in 47KM

    02021HD

    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...

    Self-Portrait: Fairy Tale in 47KM
  • 2012
    Revolution in Baiyun Village

    Revolution in Baiyun Village

    Revolution in Baiyun Village

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

    Revolution in Baiyun Village
  • 2011
    Back to Huamulin

    Back to Huamulin

    Back to Huamulin

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

    Back to Huamulin
  • 2016
    Self Portrait: Birth in 47 KM

    Self Portrait: Birth in 47 KM

    Self Portrait: Birth in 47 KM

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    Between 1959 and 1961, more than 35 million people starved to death because of Mao’s Great Leap Forward policies. To avoid censorship in China,...

    Self Portrait: Birth in 47 KM
  • 2012
    Luo Village: Pitiless Earth and Sky

    Luo Village: Pitiless Earth and Sky

    Luo Village: Pitiless Earth and Sky

    02012HD

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

    Luo Village: Pitiless Earth and Sky
  • 2012
    Attacking Zhanggao Village

    Attacking Zhanggao Village

    Attacking Zhanggao Village

    02012HD

    A documentary following the filmmaker, Wang Hai'an, who went back to his hometown of Zhanggao Cun, a rural village in Shandong Province. He...

    Attacking Zhanggao Village
  • 2012
    Huamulin 2012

    Huamulin 2012

    Huamulin 2012

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    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...

    Huamulin 2012
  • 2012
    Children's Village

    Children's Village

    Children's Village

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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...

    Children's Village
  • 2011
    Satiated Village

    Satiated Village

    Satiated Village

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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...

    Satiated Village
  • 2011
    Luo Village: I and Ren Dingqi

    Luo Village: I and Ren Dingqi

    Luo Village: I and Ren Dingqi

    02011HD

    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....

    Luo Village: I and Ren Dingqi
  • 2010
    The Starving Village

    The Starving Village

    The Starving Village

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    This is my second documentary film, and it is fully composed of old people. One woman, nearing 80, is living out the last two years of her life. From...

    The Starving Village