From Caochangdi Workstation Studios


  • 2023
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    Self-Portrait: 47 KM 2020

    Self-Portrait: 47 KM 2020

    8.00 2023 HD

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

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  • 2021
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    The Monument

    The Monument

    1 2021 HD

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

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  • 2012
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    Shuangjing Village, I'm your grandson

    Shuangjing Village, I'm your grandson

    1 2012 HD

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

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

    Self-Portrait: Building the Bridge at 47KM

    1 2014 HD

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

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  • 2013
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    Self-Portrait: Dancing at 47KM

    Self-Portrait: Dancing at 47KM

    1 2013 HD

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

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  • 2017
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    Autobiography: Pass Through

    Autobiography: Pass Through

    1 2017 HD

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

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  • 2016
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    Investigating My Father

    Investigating My Father

    1 2016 HD

    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...

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  • 2010
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    Self-Portrait with Three Women

    Self-Portrait with Three Women

    7.00 2010 HD

    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...

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  • 2021
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    Self-Portrait: Fairy Tale in 47KM

    Self-Portrait: Fairy Tale in 47KM

    1 2021 HD

    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...

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  • 2019
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    Self-Portrait: Window in 47KM

    Self-Portrait: Window in 47KM

    1 2019 HD

    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...

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  • 2011
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    Back to Huamulin

    Back to Huamulin

    1 2011 HD

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

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  • 2012
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    Revolution in Baiyun Village

    Revolution in Baiyun Village

    1 2012 HD

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

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  • 2016
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    Self Portrait: Birth in 47 KM

    Self Portrait: Birth in 47 KM

    1 2016 HD

    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,...

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  • 2012
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    Children's Village

    Children's Village

    1 2012 HD

    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...

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  • 2012
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    Luo Village: Pitiless Earth and Sky

    Luo Village: Pitiless Earth and Sky

    1 2012 HD

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

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  • 2012
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    Attacking Zhanggao Village

    Attacking Zhanggao Village

    1 2012 HD

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

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  • 2012
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    Huamulin 2012

    Huamulin 2012

    1 2012 HD

    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...

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  • 2011
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    Satiated Village

    Satiated Village

    1 2011 HD

    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...

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  • 2011
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    Luo Village: I and Ren Dingqi

    Luo Village: I and Ren Dingqi

    1 2011 HD

    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....

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  • 2009
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    My Village 2008

    My Village 2008

    1 2009 HD

    Now in her seventies, Shao Yuzhen has been making first-person documentaries about her home village of Shaziying (Beijing) since her selection for...

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