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Wong's no-budget indie (dreamt up in a night, shot in a week) tells four distinct stories which intersect in the manner of Mystery Train. They range from character-based comedy (a young couple nervously venture into a 'love hotel' for the first time) to Grand Guignol melodrama (a Filipina maid seeks revenge on her two-timing lover - the actress being the director's mother's real-life maid).

The humorous short film provides a lesson in arithmetic with the help of five people and twelve mosquitos.

The film is adapted from the story of "Mrs. Deer" in the 85th Grotto of Dunhuang Mural in China. Legend has it that there is a deer girl at the foot of Lotus Mountain, who was chased by Xia Guo's hunting team, but was fortunately rescued by King Yan.

In the years before 1995, young artists who pursued free creativity came from all over the country to Yuanmingyuan, in the western suburbs of Beijing. These people settled in the rental houses of the village farmers, and then ambitiously bought paint-stretched canvases to explore and create art. The biggest difficulty they face is to make up for the monthly rent to be paid to the landlord. Selling paintings is not their only means of survival; they would also rely on other crafts to maintain their lives. Their works were very different; they have a spirit of rebellion, and they do not conform to traditional aesthetics. This is what caused Sate officials to intervene. (Shot May–December 1995.)

This is a Chinese video tape released internally in 1991, which mainly introduces the military overview of the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Japan. The entire film uses the technique of found footage to collage a large number of external image materials for relevant personnel to understand relevant military knowledge.

One of Hu Jie's 'Farmers Working in the City' films. The city is developing rapidly, with tall buildings and highways. Behind this bustling city, there is such a group of people. They come from the countryside. Maybe they are not dressed well, or they have only finished elementary school, but they work hard with their own work. The piece of prosperity pays its youth and sweat. (Shot between 1997 and 1998)

Documentary on the Nanjing Massacre.

The director of a Repertory Troupe and a young student are tasked with investigating a potential incidence of bribery at a jade carving factory.

A Lingering Face follows an everyman named Lei Haiyang (Pan Yueming), who has recently broken up with his girlfriend. Deciding to go to Beijing, he hitches a ride with a driver (Ma Xiaoqing) and a fellow hitchhiker, Yanzi (Li Min). Waking up from a nap, Haiyang finds the truck parked in the woods and the driver raping Yanzi. Hiding in the undergrowth, Yanzi sees Haiyang, but does not reveal his hiding position. Terrified, Haiyang runs away.

An erotic tale based on Pan Jinlian, an archetypal femme fatale in Chinese classics.

A talented young tambourine player joins an ensemble in the capital of a West China province.

One of Hu Jie's 'Farmers Working in the City' films. The city is developing rapidly, with tall buildings and highways. Behind this bustling city, there is such a group of people. They come from the countryside. Maybe they are not dressed well, or they have only finished elementary school, but they work hard with their own work. The piece of prosperity pays its youth and sweat. (Shot between 1997 and 1998.)

After Mao Zedong's wife is killed in Changsha in 1930 by Nationalist agents, his three children are sent to Shanghai and kept in hiding.

In deep Hengduan Mountain Range, western Yunnan of China, there hides a special village which is not known by people outside. All the villagers inhabited here are children between 6 and 14. They live in the village all year round to complete their six-year study in a primary school. Quite a few documentaries focus on this area, but "A student Village" is particularly touching because it portrays the optimism of the poor and shows respect toward them. Upon finishing the film, Director Wei Xing brought it back and showed it in the village. Villagers from miles away walked to the screening and shared in the festival-like atmosphere. The documentary received great feedback after it was broadcast on television.

Two-part TV film on the last ten months of Chinese poet and scholar Wen Yiduo before he was killed.

The award-winning documentary Empty Mountain is about a village in the Daba Mountain area. The people who live there are very poor, but nonetheless very hopeful, and enjoy their living conditions in the mountains. Peng Hui and two film crew members interviewed and filmed in villages with no water, electricity, and minimal food resources; they worked and lived for more than six months, relying on rain, instant noodles and two tents. The result was Empty Mountain, a documentary which has already been accepted as a teaching and observational tool by Beijing Broadcasting Institute, Beijing Film Academy, Shanghai Fudan University, and Shanghai Theater Academy.

A reporter investigates conditions at her husband's vacuum cleaner factory

This short film reflects the story of a typical Chinese family around the birth and naming of children, thinking about the pressure from society before a life is even born.

The rat steals a fish, but the cat takes the fish from the rat.

This is a heartwarming comedy with the message that everyone has the right to pursue true love despite boundaries of age and, yes, physical size. So, what do you think? Will Ziozio Lim choose Moses Lim, the rolypoly middle-aged man, over Chew Chor Meng, the young and suave ventriloquist? Stay tuned.

Three-channel installation. Videos show processing meat with a mincer from three different angles simultaneously. One of the two videos in color shows the feeding funnel of the meat mincer where slides of meat are stuffed in; the other video in color captures where meat comes out from the mincer and is collected in a bowl. A third black-and-white surveillance video is attached to the hand operating the mincer, which gives a revolving motion to the images captured.

A group of chinese students talk to the camera about love, sex, career prospects, decisions to stay or leave the country, and the impact events in Tiananmen had had on their lives.

Experimental short on various objects, made in 1994.

2H combines documentary and dramatic film techniques to depict the psychological passages of two Chinese expatriates in Tokyo as they attempt to accommodate their existence to the two universal events of life - birth and death. Ma Jinsan is a 95 year-old former Kuomintang general who defected to Japan nearly 50 years earlier, shortly after the Communist revolution. Bound to Ma by chance, circumstance, and emotional need, Xiong Wenyun is an avant-garde artist desperately seeking to fulfill an innate but inarticulate desire to have a child.

Never broadcasted feature film by Chinese documentary filmmaker Kang Jianning.

A documentary of 24th April, 1970 assassination of Chiang Ching-kuo.

A mockumentary that explores the self-empowerment of a Native woman who is ready to defeat white supremacy on her own terms.