Chinese Independent Documentary

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CHINESE INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY FROM 1990 ONWARDS

Transcript of Chinese Independent Documentary

CHINESE INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY

FROM 1990 ONWARDS

THE FIRST INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY

• Bumming in Beijing (1990)

by Wu Wenguang

THE FIRST GENERATION(1990-2000)• Filmmakers working for official TV station.

The Other Bank by Jiang Yue

No. 16, Barkhor South Streetby Duan Jinchuan

THE SECOND GENERATION(2000 ONWARDS)• DV Generation: digital camera• Filmmakers from various backgrounds

Along the Railway by Du Haibin

West of the Tracks by Wang Bing

Petition by Zhao Liang

• Social/political issues• Aesthetic exploration

Behemoth by Zhao Liang

Mr. Zhang Believes By Qiu Jiongjiong

Li Wen at East LakeBy Li Luo

QIU JIONGJIONG• Painter as well as filmmaker

• Aesthetic exploration: reenactment in Mr. Zhang Believes• A kind of humor, which is rarely seen in Chinese

independent documentary: making films for fun.

MADAME (2010)

https://vimeo.com/152915807

• University Service Center for Chinese Study of CUHK

• Interested in talkative persons; enjoy gazing and listening to people, especially the elderly talking.

• Ordinary people (relatives) and their micro histories life experiences;

• Oral history (no images to show the past stories)