Film

Painting For The Revolution: Peasants Paintings from HU County

2005 · 1h 10m · Documentary

Hu County, in suburban Xi’an, is famous for its peasant paintings, produced in 1958 during the Great Leap Forward. It became particularly famous during the Cultural Revolution, when these works were hailed as model paintings. In 2005, the directors visited the county and interviewed both the painters and their teachers. Comparing different political languages and artistic imaginings across the ages, the film draws on diverse sources: old documentary film clips, new propaganda paintings, Beijing Opera in the local “Qin” accent, and traces of the old amongst the new. All these elements are engaged to help us better understand the painters and the phenomenon of propaganda paintings

• Ai XiaomingDirector
• Hu JieDirector

Release date

January 2, 2005

Status

Released

Original language

Chinese

Runtime

1h 10m

Genres

Documentary