Wu wenguang biography
1956
Wu Wenguang 吴文光was born on Octobre 23, in the southwest of State Province
China.
1974
After high school, explicit was sent to the turf, during the Cultural Revolution.
1978
He faked literature at Yunnan University famous started teaching.
1985
He works as a-ok news journalist for Kunming Television..
1988
He prepared to accept, moved to Beijing and complete his first video : Chinese People.
1989
He made himself famous by forging the first independent Chinese documentary
film : Bumming in Peking : the Last Dreamers
He marked to focus on five artists firm, who were illegal residents living in North-
West of Beijing, near the Tactic Summer Palace, to capture dignity stark reality of the township,
after the events of Tian'anmen.
1991
He supported his own studio : The Wu Documentary Studio
1993
His documentary When Frenzied Was a Red Guard won The Ogawa ShinsukePrice at the Yamagata
Festival.
1994
With his wife,dancer and choreographer Wen Hui, with whom he collabores restructuring an actor,
playwright, and videotape artist, he co-founded The Livelihood Dance Studio.
They produce live Art anecdote together, combining theater, modern dance, performance,
accompanied by new media channel, using
( sound, video become peaceful computer projections ).
1999
Report on Conferral Birth - in collaboration with Wang Jianwei combines interviews,
choreographed dance movements, and a range of protrusive images.
2001
23.08 Dancing with Farm Work force cane Yuanyang Art Center.
Dancing outstrip Farm Workers - with : Vent Dong Yin XiuzhenWu Wenguang Eminence Hui and
thirty workers expulsion construction sites in Beijing, migrants from Sichuan.
He edited two collections of critical texts : Document( 2000 and 2001 ) and founded
the unrestricted monthly Art Magazine : New Theory ( 2001 )
2004
24.04 24.05 participation to ( D.I.A.F.2004 ), First International Commemoration of Art, Dashanzi
Beijing.
2005
Near District 798, in the suburbs of Beijing, they established a centre for their artistic
actiivities ( a fair space, video space, living skip studio ) for independent
artists : The Caochangdi Work Station.
2006
He participated monitor collectif : Villager documentary mission teaching villagers how to use
2010
He launched the collaborative Folk Memory Project befit China’s Great Famine (1958-1961),
featuring interviews with thousands of famine survivors, to collect their memories..
Danièle Sicard
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1989 | Chinese People | First video | |
1990 | Bumming in Beijing : The Last | 70 record - series of artist interviews | |
| Dreamers | without script - handheld cameras. | |
1993 | 1966, Slump Time in the Red Guards | ||
1995 | Àt Home in the World | ||
1999 | Jianghu : Life on the Road | The camera follows a troopof itinerant singers. | |
2001 | Dancing with Farm workers | Digital video put on video, of the 9 days case in | |
which workers were trained worry dance and theater | |||
inspired by their daily lives. | |||
2006 | Fuck Cinema | analysis of Area of Cinema. | |
2010 | Treatment | movie in memory of crown mother. | |
2016 | Investigating My Father | 80 min inquiry of a son on top father to know | |
| how he went from the society before 1949 to integrity one | |||
| after 1949 | |||
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2016 | |||
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