Chinese artists by Michel Nau - Wu Wenguang  吴文光  
 

 

 
 

 

 
 

Wu Wenguang

 
 

 吴文光

 
     
 

© Wu Wenguang  吴文光      portrait  -  chinesenewart

 
biography  
works  
filmography  
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
   

1956

Wu Wenguang was born on Octobre 23, in the southwest of Yunnan Province, in China.

   

1974

After high school, he was sent  to the countryside, during the Cultural Revolution.

   

1978

He studied literature at Yunnan University and started teaching.

 

 

1985

He works as a news journalist for Kunming Television.

 

 

1988

He resigned, moved to Beijing and made his first video : Chinese People.

   

1989

He made himself famous by producing the first independent Chinese documentary film :

 

Bumming in Beijing : the Last Dreamers

 

He decided to focus on five artists friends, who were illegal residents living in North-West

 

of  Beijing, near the Old Summer Palace, to capture the stark reality of the town,

 

after the events of Tian'anmen.

   

1991

He founded his own studio :  The Wu Documentary Studio  

   

1993

His documentary When I Was a Red Guard won The Ogawa Shinsuke price at the Yamagata

 

Festival  .

   

1994

With his wife,dancer and choreographer Wen Hui, with whom he collabores as an actor,

 

playwright, and video artist, he co-founded The Living Dance Studio.

   

 

They produce live Art events together, combining theater, modern dance, and

 

performance, accompanied bu new media arrangements, using ( sound, video and

 

computer projections ).

   

1999

Report on Giving Birth  - in collaboration with Wang Jianwei combines interviews,

 

choreographed dance movements, and a range of projected images.

   

2001

Dancing with Farm Workers - with : Song Dong Yin Xiuzhen Wu Wenguang Wen Hui and 30

 

workers on the sites of construction in Beijing, migrants from Sichuan.

   

2001

23.08  Dancing with Farm Workers  Centre d'Art Yuanyang.

   
 

He edited two collections of critical texts : Document ( 2000 and 2001 ) and  founded

 

the independent monthly Art Magazine : New Wave ( 2001 )

   

2004

24.04 24.05 participation to ( D.I.A.F.2004 ), First International Festival of Art, Dashanzi

 

Beijing.

   

2005

Near District 798, in the suburbs of Beijing, they established a centre for their artistic

 

actiivities ( a performance space, video space, living dance studio ) for independent

 

artists: The Caochangdi Work Station.

   

2006

He participated in collectif  : Villager documentary project teaching villagers how to use
  a digital camera and to make a film.
 

 

2010

He launched the  collaborative Folk Memory Project of China’s Great Famine (1958-1961),

 

featuring interviews with thousands of famine survivors, to collect their memories.

 

 

   
   
 

Danièle Sicard

 
 


Bumming in Beijing ( dir. Wu Wenguang )

 
 
 
 
     
   


Documentaries  
selection

 
       

1989

 

Chinese People

First video
       

1990

  Bumming in Beijing :  The Last

70 minutes - series of artist interviews

 

  Dreamers without script - caméras portatives.
       

1993

 

1966, My Time in the Red Guards

 
       

1995

 

Àt Home in the World

 
       

1999

  Jianghu : Life on the Road the caméra follows a troopof itinerant singers.
       

2001

  Dancing with Farm workers

Digital video recording, of the 9 days process

     

in which workers were trained in dance and theater

     

inspired by their daily lives.

       
       

2006

 

Fuck Cinema

analysis of world of Cinema.
       

2010

  Treatment movie in memory of his mother.
       

2016

 

Investigating My Father

80 min investigation of a son on his father to know

      how he went from the society before 1949 to the one
      after 1949
       

       
       


Investigating My Father ( Directed, edited by Wu Wenguang ) 80 min.  2016

 

 
 

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