Whose was the first documentary in China?

◎ Movie Name Beijing Wandering

Director Wu

◎ Year 1990

China countries.

Category documentary

On-screen Chinese

◎ The film length is 67 minutes.

Participate in the exhibition.

199 1: Fukuoka Asian Film Festival, Japan; Hong Kong International Film Festival; Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival; Montreal International Film Festival (Canada); Hawaii International Film Festival; London International Film Festival; Berlin International Film Festival "New Film International Forum"

1992: Singapore International Film Festival

1993: The Louvre Cinema in Paris; Berlin Cultural Palace "China New Film"; Montnier Art Festival; Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art

1994: Brussels Art Festival

1995: Guangzhou "The First Exhibition of Modern Art and Drama"; London ICA Art Center

1996: Vienna International Film Festival; Lisbon International Documentary Film Festival

1997: "New China/New Vision" in Contemporary Art Museum

◎ Jane

Wandering in Beijing is regarded as the first documentary in China. Wu's significance to China's new documentary is equivalent to Cui Jianzhi's significance to Chinese rock and roll. The film has participated in many international film festivals (Hong Kong International Film Festival, Montreal International Film Festival, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, Hawaii International Film Festival, Singapore International Film Festival, etc.). In fact, this film is a wandering artist, who filmed the lives of five other wandering artists (Zhang Ci, Gao Bo, Zhang Dali, Zhang Xia Ping and Mou Sen). This is the first time that China recorded this phenomenon with a video camera. It has never been shown in public, and it was widely circulated in mainland film and television circles in the form of "manuscript" before, which, together with word of mouth, caused great shock and controversy. It is generally believed that this is the upper limit of China's new documentary.

Wu, as the pioneer of China documentary in the new era, has long been famous, so there are many people who take time to watch movies this time. Wandering in Beijing is his work from1June 1988 to1June 1989, and it is also his famous work. After reading it, I thought of many things and seemed to understand the true value or support of the documentary.

Obviously, in editing, the director takes pains from the beginning to the end of the story, just like ordinary movies. The smooth and plain narrative style describes the lives of five "wandering" artists in Beijing. "Tramp" is a secular saying. If it is more elegant, their accurate identity should be "freelancer". They are engaged in photography and writing respectively. Basically, outside the social system, movies are freely created. According to the normal narrative mode of "start-development-end", the film is divided into three parts, and the theme is mainly the "soliloquy" of the five of them, that is, talking to themselves in front of a still camera. Judging from the director's shooting, there are mainly about five people, and the director basically does not intervene (the name is only mentioned once), which should be very documentary. In addition, in editing, around a "theme", the five people not only talk about each other, but also complement each other, so that the stories are organically linked, rather than isolated and rambling.

Director Wu's resume and works;

Biographical notes

1956 10 was born in Kunming, Yunnan.

1974 After graduating from middle school, he went to the countryside as an "educated youth" until 1978.

1982 graduated from Chinese Department of Yunnan University.

From 1982 to 1985, I taught in middle schools in Kunming and Xinjiang.

Worked as a reporter in Kunming TV station from 1985 to 1988.

1988 has settled in Beijing so far, creating and shooting documentaries.

work

1966, revolutionary scene (Taiwan Province Times Publishing Company, 1993)

Wandering in Beijing (Taiwan Province Vientiane Publishing Company, 1994)

Jianghu Report (Lotus Literature Magazine has been serialized since the 4th issue 1999)

works

Wandering in Beijing: The Last Dreamer 1990

My 1966 1993

Four seas at home 1995

Jianghu 1999