Wu Wenguang Movies

A documentary following five young artists from around China, who travelled to Beijing in the 1980s to work as freelancers, exploring their lives,...

A year after he made Bumming in Beijing, Wu Wenguang visited his main figures in Austria, France, Italy and the USA. The desire to escape everything,...

More preoccupied with "history" than Wu's other works, My Time in the Red Guards is a record of his fascination with the missed moment, Mao's...

“Action 2024” is a snapshot of independent filmmaker Wu Wenguang's experiences during the year 2024, which he spent in a village called...

Never broadcasted feature film by Chinese documentary filmmaker Kang Jianning.

Wu Wenguang revisits the artist Gao Bo more than 20 years after their earlier encounters which were documented in "Bumming in Beijing" (1990) and "At...

The one directorial feature by Ning Dai, sister of 5th generation filmmaker Ning Ying and wife of 6th generation filmmaker Zhang Yuan. It follows a...

Thirty years later, Chuang encounters a past love in Zhongshan. As they wander the aging streets, true archival footage from his youth bleeds into...

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

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...

Darkly humorous reinterpretation of the zombie film, set in Beijing. Here the undead are real estate agents, nouveau riche businessmen, security...

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...

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

The film is about the first two years in the Memory Project. All images was from my angle with my camera.

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

This documentary shows how different young people try to realize their dreams to become famous through the film industry.

Originally produced in 1988 and 1989, but blocked from being released after June 4th. A large-scale Chinese documentary series that spanned 100s of...

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....

The third part in Wu Wenguang's Autobiography film series.