Presented By: Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan
Listening to Third Grandmother’s Stories (2011) & Dance with Third Grandmother (2015)
Documentary | Directed by Wen Hui | 1h 15m | Free
Synopsis
Listening to Third Grandmother’s Stories (2011) and Dance with Third Grandmother (2015) are documentary-style interview films that recorded the stories of Wen Hui’s third grandmother. When Wen Hui visited her family’s hometown, a small village in Yunnan, on a project, she unexpectedly met her third grandmother. Spending time with her, Wen Hui listened to her stories of tragedy and hardships that she lived through the Great Famine and Cultural Revolution in China.
About Director Wen Hui
A graduate of Beijing Dancing Academy, Wen Hui is a renowned choreographer and dancer in China. She and Wu Wenguang, an independent film maker, co-founded China’s first independent dance theatre company “Life and Dance Studio” in Beijing in 1994. Her creativity, her theatre style, and Chinese daily life movements are weaved into many of her documentary films, attempting to depict conflicts and connections between memory and history.
Listening to Third Grandmother’s Stories (2011) and Dance with Third Grandmother (2015) are documentary-style interview films that recorded the stories of Wen Hui’s third grandmother. When Wen Hui visited her family’s hometown, a small village in Yunnan, on a project, she unexpectedly met her third grandmother. Spending time with her, Wen Hui listened to her stories of tragedy and hardships that she lived through the Great Famine and Cultural Revolution in China.
About Director Wen Hui
A graduate of Beijing Dancing Academy, Wen Hui is a renowned choreographer and dancer in China. She and Wu Wenguang, an independent film maker, co-founded China’s first independent dance theatre company “Life and Dance Studio” in Beijing in 1994. Her creativity, her theatre style, and Chinese daily life movements are weaved into many of her documentary films, attempting to depict conflicts and connections between memory and history.
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