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18. Jun 2013
Unearthing the Past: From Independent Filmmaking to Social Change
China, cultural studies, documentaries, film, InFocus, media, migrant workers, social activism, village elections
Wu Wenguang, considered the father of independent Chinese documentary film, has since 2005 slowly but surely been handing over the camera to people on the margins and to younger generations of Chinese documentary filmmaking. In 2010 Wu and Caochangdi Workstation initiated the Folk Memory Documentary Project, where young filmmakers go to the countryside to gather […]
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