Runaway Mime

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...

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...

This is my second documentary film, and it is fully composed of old people. One woman, nearing 80, is living out the last two years of her life. From...

Workers, peasants, soldiers, students and merchants were five groups of Chinese society in the 1950s, after the so-called elimination of the...

The documentary Building Archeology (jiànzhú kǎo) (2011) considers the more recent past. It’s made up of three vignettes...

Part mournful meditation through documentary footage, part experimental narrative. This film looks at the life of the Chinese who have been displaced...

"Huangyangchuan, Gansu province, China. It's an arid mountain area with poor roads. Ma Bingcheng is well-respected local doctor, so many patients...

Video essay ‘Rock and Cliff' investigates the creation of Horn Town, a new model village and centre of large scale tourist development, and the...

"China Gate" tells the story of young Chinese fight to change their fate through studying. Right before dawn, students in Huining have already...

China marks the beginning of the extensive Asian theme in Ottinger’s filmography and is her first travelogue. Her observant eye is interested...

Zhang Ming went back to his hometown Wushan to record the last images before it being changed forever by the upcoming Three Gorges Dam.