Zhang Mengqi Movies
- 2023
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...
- 2013
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...
- 2021
The Monument
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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...
- 2017
Autobiography: Pass Through
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The first part of Wu Wenguang's Autobiography film series.
- 2010
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...
- 2018
Self-Portrait: Sphinx in 47 Km
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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. A...
- 2015
Self-Portrait: Dying at 47 KM
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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...
- 2021
Self-Portrait: Fairy Tale in 47KM
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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...
- 2022
Blue House
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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...
- 2021
Luo Luo’s Fear
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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...
- 2019
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...
- 2014
Self-Portrait: Building the Bridge at 47KM
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The fifth title in Zhang Mengqi's Self-Portrait film series.
- 2013
Self-Portrait: Dreaming at 47 KM
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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...
- 2018
Autobiography: Struggles
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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...
- 2016
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,...
- 2013
Because of Hunger: Diary 1 by Wu
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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.
- 2011
Self Portrait: At 47 Km
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The young filmmaker returns to her village to interview the elderly on the Chinese famine of 1958-60. But the villagers' replies direct her back to...
- 2019
Autobiography: Evidence
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The third part in Wu Wenguang's Autobiography film series.