Caochangdi Workstation Movies

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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,...

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

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...

A documentary film following the daily life of director's grandfather in the winter of 2011. At 80 years old with five sons, the grandfather insists...

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....

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