October 9, 2015
AALAC Workshop on Contemporary Chinese Cinema: Wu Wenguang, "My Documentary Filmmaking and Folk Memory Project"
Friday, 7:30 p.m., Psychology 105
Widely acclaimed, pioneering filmmaker Wu Wenguang was born in southwestern China’s Yunnan province. At the age of 18, he was sent to the countryside to work as a farmer. He studied Chinese literature at Yunnan University and first worked as a middle school teacher and then as a TV journalist. Wu left television and moved to Beijing in 1988 to be an independent documentary filmmaker, freelance writer, and creator and producer of dance/theater. Wu has completed a number of documentaries, including Bumming in Beijing (1990), 1966, My Time as a Red Guard (1993), Jiang Hu: Life on the Road (1999), F*** Cinema (2005), and Treatment (2010). In 2005, Wu co-founded the independent art space Caochangdi Workstation with Wen Hui in Beijing. Since then, Wu launched two main projects, the Village Documentary Project (2005) and the Folk Memory Project (2010). Sponsored by the AALAC and the dean of faculty.