
Person
Wu Wenguang
Directing · Born 1956-01-01 · Yunnan, China
Biography
Wu was born in south-western China’s Yunnan province in 1956. After graduating from high school in 1974, Wu was send to the countryside, where he worked as farmer for four year. Between 1978 and 1982, he studied Chinese Literature in Yunnan University. After the University, Wu worked as a teach at a junior high school for three years, and later, he worked in the television as a journalist for four years. Wu left the television, moved to Beijing in 1988 to be an independent documentary filmmaker, freelance writer and creator and producer of dance/theater. Wu has completed documentaries: Bumming in Beijing (1990), 1966, My Time in the Red Guards (1993), Jiang Hu: Life on the Road (1999), Fuck Cinema (2005), Bare Your Staff (2010), Treating (2010), Because of Hunger (2013), Investigating My Father (2016), Autobiography: Pass Through (2017), Autobiography: Struggle (2018) Autobiography: Fear (2019), Riding Through (2020), and has screened in many film festivals in the world. Wu also has created some short video, which like Diary: Snow, 21 Nov, 1998 (1999), Public Space (2000), Search: Hamlet in China (2002). Wu had been created in theater, which like Treating (2009), Memory: Hunger (2010), Investigating My Father (2013) and Reading Hunger (2016), Reading Father (2019) Also Wu had some no-fiction books published (Bumming in Beijing, 1966, Revolution Scene, Report on Jianghu) In 2005, Wu found the Village Documentary Project, and in 2010, found the Folk Memory Project .
Known for

At Home in the World
Director

Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers
Director
Haze and Fog
The Old Man

Because of Hunger: Diary 1 by Wu
Director

Sweat
Doctor

Action 2024
Director

Luo Luo’s Fear
Self

1966, My Time in the Red Guards
Director

Investigating My Father
Director

Dance with Farm Workers
Producer
Filmography
- 2025Action 2024Director
- 2024My Hong Kong Diaries in 2022Editorial Consultant
- 2021Autobiography : FlyDirector
- 2021Luo Luo’s FearSelf
- 2021The MonumentSelf
- 2019Autobiography: EvidenceSelf
- 2018Autobiography: StrugglesDirector
- 2017之间Director
- 2017Autobiography: Pass ThroughSelf
- 2016Investigating My FatherDirector
- 2013Haze and FogThe Old Man
- 2013Because of Hunger: Diary 1 by WuDirector
- 2012Revolution in Baiyun VillageProducer
- 2012Huamulin 2012Producer
- 2012Luo Village: Pitiless Earth and SkyProducer
- 2012Shuangjing Village, I'm your grandsonProducer
- 2012Attacking Zhanggao VillageProducer
- 2012Children's VillageProducer
- 2011Back to HuamulinProducer
- 2011Luo Village: I and Ren DingqiProducer
- 2011Satiated VillageProducer
- 2010Bare Your StuffDirector
- 2010My Grandpa's WinterProducer
- 2010TreatmentDirector
- 2005China Villager Documentary Project: China Village Self-Governance Film ProjectProducer
- 2004Fuck Cinema
- 2003You Are Called OutlanderDirector
- 2002SweatDoctor
- 2002Dance with Farm WorkersProducer
- 2002Search for HamletDirector
- 1999Jiang Hu: Life on the RoadProducer
- 1995At Home in the WorldDirector
- 1994A Film Is Stoppedself
- 19931966, My Time in the Red GuardsDirector
- 1990Bumming in Beijing: The Last DreamersDirector
- 1989The ChineseDirector
- —Fifty Kilometers from the Shenzhen-Zhongshan Bridge, Two Drunken Pigeons Are Dancing
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