Zhang Mengqi Movies

  • 2023
    Self-Portrait: 47 KM 2020

    Self-Portrait: 47 KM 2020

    Self-Portrait: 47 KM 2020

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

    Self-Portrait: 47 KM 2020
  • 2017
    Autobiography: Pass Through

    Autobiography: Pass Through

    Autobiography: Pass Through

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

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

    Self-Portrait: Building the Bridge at 47KM

    Self-Portrait: Building the Bridge at 47KM

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

    Self-Portrait: Building the Bridge at 47KM
  • 2018
    Autobiography: Struggles

    Autobiography: Struggles

    Autobiography: Struggles

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    This film is the second segment of my “Autobiography Series.” From the moment when my mother disclosed a long kept secret, my birth was...

    Autobiography: Struggles
  • 2018
    Self-Portrait: Sphinx in 47 Km

    Self-Portrait: Sphinx in 47 Km

    Self-Portrait: Sphinx in 47 Km

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    In the Chinese countryside, an old woman tells the story of her deceased son, while a little girl paints her dreams on the walls of the house. A...

    Self-Portrait: Sphinx in 47 Km
  • 2015
    Self-Portrait: Dying at 47 KM

    Self-Portrait: Dying at 47 KM

    Self-Portrait: Dying at 47 KM

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    This village is located 47 KM from Suizhou, Hubei Province. Her grandfather passed away, and what does the village mean to her without him? She...

    Self-Portrait: Dying at 47 KM
  • 2021
    The Monument

    The Monument

    The Monument

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

    The Monument
  • 2010
    Self-Portrait with Three Women

    Self-Portrait with Three Women

    Self-Portrait with Three Women

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    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...

    Self-Portrait with Three Women
  • 2022
    Blue House

    Blue House

    Blue House

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    When the pandemic broke out, the filmmaker began to document the outside world from her window. A public space, Blue House, was finally realised but...

    Blue House
  • 2013
    Self-Portrait: Dancing at 47KM

    Self-Portrait: Dancing at 47KM

    Self-Portrait: Dancing at 47KM

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

    Self-Portrait: Dancing at 47KM
  • 2013
    Self-Portrait: Dreaming at 47 KM

    Self-Portrait: Dreaming at 47 KM

    Self-Portrait: Dreaming at 47 KM

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    This is the fourth film in my self-portrait series. I went back to the village named 47 km in 2013. My grandfather was critically ill, and I...

    Self-Portrait: Dreaming at 47 KM
  • 2021
    Luo Luo’s Fear

    Luo Luo’s Fear

    Luo Luo’s Fear

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    Luo Luo’s intense fear of Covid-19 keeps her in the house during the pandemic. She listens to her father relate their family history, and...

    Luo Luo’s Fear
  • 2021
    Self-Portrait: Fairy Tale in 47KM

    Self-Portrait: Fairy Tale in 47KM

    Self-Portrait: Fairy Tale in 47KM

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    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...

    Self-Portrait: Fairy Tale in 47KM
  • 2011
    Self Portrait: At 47 Km

    Self Portrait: At 47 Km

    Self Portrait: At 47 Km

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    The young filmmaker returns to her village to interview the elderly on the Chinese famine of 1958-60. But the villagers' replies direct her back to...

    Self Portrait: At 47 Km
  • 2019
    Self-Portrait: Window in 47KM

    Self-Portrait: Window in 47KM

    Self-Portrait: Window in 47KM

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    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...

    Self-Portrait: Window in 47KM
  • 2016
    Self Portrait: Birth in 47 KM

    Self Portrait: Birth in 47 KM

    Self Portrait: Birth in 47 KM

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    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,...

    Self Portrait: Birth in 47 KM
  • 2013
    Because of Hunger: Diary 1 by Wu

    Because of Hunger: Diary 1 by Wu

    Because of Hunger: Diary 1 by Wu

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

    Because of Hunger: Diary 1 by Wu
  • 2019
    Autobiography: Evidence

    Autobiography: Evidence

    Autobiography: Evidence

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

    Autobiography: Evidence