Zhang Mengqi Movies

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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

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