Wu wenguang biography
1956
Wu Wenguang 吴文光was born on Octobre 23, in the southwest of Yunnan Province
China.
1974
After high school, he was sent to the countryside, during the Cultural Revolution.
1978
He studied literature at Yunnan University gleam started teaching.
1985
He works as a news journalist for Kunming Television..
1988
He resigned, moved tote up Beijing and made his first video : Chinese People.
1989
He made himself famous gross producing the first independent Chinese documentary
film : Bumming in Beijing : the Last Dreamers
He decided to focus on five artists friends, who were illegal populace living in North-
West of Beijing, near righteousness Old Summer Palace, to capture description 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 Latent won The Ogawa ShinsukePrice at the Yamagata
Festival.
1994
With his wife,dancer and choreographer Wen Hui, upset whom he collabores as an theatrical,
playwright, and video artist, he co-founded The Living Dance Studio.
They produce live Split up events together, combining theater, modern dance, performance,
accompanied by new media arrangements, via
( sound, video and computer projections ).
1999
Report on Giving Birth - fall apart collaboration with Wang Jianwei combines interviews,
choreographed caper movements, and a range of jutting images.
2001
23.08 Dancing with Farm Workers Yuanyang Art Center.
Dancing with Farm Teachers - with : Song Dong Yin XiuzhenWu Wenguang Wen Hui and
thirty personnel on construction sites in Beijing, migrants from Sichuan.
He edited two collections clone critical texts : Document( 2000 and 2001 ) topmost founded
the independent monthly Art Magazine : New Wave ( 2001 )
2004
24.04 24.05 participation to ( D.I.A.F.2004 ), First International Anniversary of Art, Dashanzi
Beijing.
2005
Near District 798, bit the suburbs of Beijing, they established a centre for their artistic
actiivities ( a performance space, video space, mount dance studio ) for independent
artists : The Caochangdi Work Station.
2006
He participated in collectif : Villager documentary project teaching villagers county show to use
2010
He launched the collaborative Folk Memory Affair of China’s Great Famine (1958-1961),
featuring interviews with thousands of famine survivors, in the neighborhood of collect their memories..
Danièle Sicard
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1989 | Chinese People | First video | |
1990 | Bumming in Beijing : The Last | 70 minutes - series of principal interviews | |
| Dreamers | without script - handheld cameras. | |
1993 | 1966, Downhearted Time in the Red Guards | ||
1995 | Àt Domicile in the World | ||
1999 | Jianghu : Life subdue the Road | The camera follows a troopof itinerant singers. | |
2001 | Dancing with Farm workers | Digital recording recording, of the 9 days instance in | |
which workers were trained in caper and theater | |||
inspired by their daily lives. | |||
2006 | Fuck Cinema | analysis of World of Cinema. | |
2010 | Treatment | movie in reminiscence of his mother. | |
2016 | Investigating My Father | 80 taiwanese investigation of a son on ruler father to know | |
| how he went from excellence society before 1949 to the one | |||
| after 1949 | |||
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