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1930s Shanghai. The past is like a fragment of a dream; a painter also uses their reveries to transcend barriers of time and space, approaching or entering dreams. A girl in a cheongsam appears and seem to float, like a dream; she leads the painter out into the morning sun of the old city...

In 1993, on the 100th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s birth, Wen Pulin mobilized the “Sun 100” series of artistic activities, staging programs at official institutions featuring avant-garde artists in Mao’s hometown, Shaoshan. The film "Sun 100" was intended to be a document of that work, representing the country and the nation thinking about a specific quandary: What is the spiritual heritage that's been left behind by Mao Zedong, if there is any at all? Wen planned for the film to show at the 1994 Hong Kong Film Festival, but withdrew it, and has never finished it, stating that his own views on Mao have shifted. 17 discs worth of footage (roughly 28 hours) from the unfinished film are included in the Wen Pulin Avant-Garde Art Archive held at Cornell University in the U.S.

On a sunny day, the old man brings umbrella with him. On his way it starts raining, and he sees a woman carrying a child. He hurries over them, to cover them with his umbrella. Someone felt envious of them, trying to steal the umbrella...

Film by Wuershan.

A young lady goes to a beautiful island and starts her sexual awakening by watching people behaviors there

A CAT III film directed by Patrick Kong Yeung and Wang Biao.

This is a documentary of a trip into the Sacred Mountains of China with Red Pine (Bill Porter) to meet Buddhist and Taoist monks and nuns who live as hermits and practice their religion. These are some of the people about whom Red Pine wrote in his book, Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits.

In this music video, which operates as a meditation on contemporary Chinese history, Yau Ching combines found images and text to negotiate between idealism and propaganda and the hopes and disillusionment that they bring.

Documentary film of Zhou Enlai's life.

Ping goes to American to open a school but got into fights with local gangster. The gangster forced the Qigong master to use his ability for turning Ping into air. In the meantime, Ping met a young girl with special ability named Xiao Ya, Ya helps Ping to escape attacks from Qigong master.

"The sulphur-iron mine is located at the common boundary of Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou province, with an area of 1774 square meters. The Yong Ning River originated from here, flowing northward 108 kilometers into the Yangtze River. The mine was established in 1950 and its products are mainly exported, with some concentrated uses within in the county. We found this place in the newspaper by accident; it's called Big Tree County. Many years ago, it was part of the forest along the Yangtze River. A sulphur-iron mine was discovered in the 1920s, which started large-scale sulphur smelting. Now the old way of sulphur smelting is ranking first in the country[sic]. On our second day there, in this remote valley in the southern part of Sichuan province with hundreds of thousands of people living there, we met a boy named Tan Cong. We then got to know his family, as well as a local school teacher, and some of the locals smelting the sulphur."

After Luo Dan killed Lao K, the boss of drug organization, 1.5 million dollars from the organization went missing. Lao K's wife hires killers to eliminate Luo Dan, at the same time, other crime organizations start to chase this missing money. Luo Dan have to team up with Kai Bo from international police department to fight their way out.

Documentary of all 12 families living in the Xishuping village during one winter.

Independent documentary film by Chinese director and cinematographer Lu Wangping.

Documentary on the life of a young fellow drifting in the city.

In 1992, more than 130 female workers in Jialong Garment Factory lost their jobs. That year, in order to transfer capital to Indonesia, the factory announced the closure of the factory at the same time as the union was established. The boss, Zhu Yinglong, a professor at Taiwan University, refused to pay severance payment in accordance with the standards of the Labor Law Law. The employees had nowhere to ask for help and decided to take to the streets to seek justice.

Independent documentary by Jiang Yue.

Short documentary film made by Hao Yuejun for German TV (ZDF). This film is lost.

It is the typical stance of this generation, with its sensitivity and impulse, to try to blur the boundaries of all existing criteria and truths, to turn seemingly rationality into absurdity, and to mock at the given reality and the "legal" matters: either the systemor those who drag on with their lives under the system. I owe my courage to the restless adolescence that compels me to tear away any existing rules which block the way to our inner reality. Imbalance is an experience naked to us, an experience that might not be popular among Chinese college student today. It restricts us, transforms us, and forces us to expand and to change. It is the formula of a chain of events, the decease of adolescence, the edge of personal relationship, and the intermedium between bliss and despair.

Chinese athlete Luo Dan comes to C country to find her young sister Luo Li, only find out she was raped and killed by local drug organization. Luo Dan picks up the gun and determined to take revenge on them.

The film is a work on environmental protection. Through the combination of physical objects and animation, it appeals to people to show mercy and love our green grassland.

Documentary film produced by CCTV and directed by Hao Yuejun.

A documentary on the XVII Karmapa of Tibet. The film also presents the spiritual life of Tibetan Buddhists in the 1990s through interviews.

The Evenki in Daxinganling is the only tribe in China that breeds reindeer. Liuba is one of the few Evenkis who has left the mountains and forests. She has always been the pride of the family after having been accepted into the Central University for Nationalities to study art. One day, Liuba returned to the mountain forest. At this time the Evenki people were in a transition from nomadic to settled. With the family deer, Liuba felt a little quiet, but in the forest, she already seemed to be Different. Finally, Liuba ran away from home, walked 300 kilometers in 4 days and married an old worker on a forest farm who loved her very much.

Documentary on Zhou Enlai's various contributions to Chinese diplomacy, from 1949 to 1976, commissioned for the 100th anniversary of late Premier's birth. From Baidu: "China's peaceful foreign policy has enabled China to gradually break through the imperialist hegemonic political and diplomatic blockades of the United States and the Soviet Union, and successfully gain the status of a major diplomatic power, opening up great possibility for the New China." The film won multiple awards in China.

Eight-channel installation. Shows a waltz-dancing scene recorded simultaneously with 8 camcorders, taken from 8 different angles in a ballroom (Set A); and clips from Revolutionary songs from the 1970s and popular music of the 1990s (Set B).

This film is an authentic documentary showing the marital and sexual norms among the Hani (Yiche), an ethnic minority of about 20,000 people, living in Yunnan Province, South West China. 25-year old Puji is a married man with a family, who nevertheless regularly leaves his home overnight to visit his lovers and spend the night with them, before returning home in the early morning hours. Such sexual behaviour is a frequent custom among the Hani and many men and women have extra-marital relationships.

Short film by Cao Kai.

A story about the different lives of a philosopher and a small restaurant owner. Through this contrasting fusion, the film considers the connection between philosophy and life.

In China the marriage ritual is not a matter of a boy and a girl who are in love with each other and want to officially confirm their relationship. The protocol consists of six stages that must be completed according to the rules: the proposal, the negotiations, the engagement, the cognisance of the birth dates of the betrothed couple to ratify the marital relationship, a visit to the fortune-teller for the most favourable wedding date, and finally the wedding ceremony. MARRIAGE follows a marriage broker during the extensive, complicated and relentless negotiations for two marriages, somewhere in the southwest of China, between Jian and Qiong, and between Yu and Zhao. In addition, the film depicts the daily life in the villages, which is filled with manual labour on the land (the men) and around the house (the women). The film ends with the wedding celebrations, when the bride is carried across the mountains to her future husband’s house in an adorned, closed palanquin.

Zhou Zhou, who lives in Wuhan, Hubei, is a boy with down syndrome. His father was a musician with the Wuhan Symphony Orchestra, and the special environment gave him an incredible outlet: Whenever music is played, Zhou Zhou conducts along with the rhythm. This film won the 10th China TV Golden Eagle Award, the 1998 China TV Documentary Academic Award and the Best Director Award, and the National "Striving for Civilization and Progress" TV award.

Snce the late 1950s, the state has invested a lot of manpower and material resources to protect the basic life of the Dulong people. At most, there are more than 500 mule horses. They belong to the state-owned "State Horse Caravan" and transport about 600 tons of food and other production and life every year. The materials entered the Dulong River basin to rescue the Dulong brothers. In April 1997, the road leading to Dulong River finally began to be built.Two years later, in 1999, the whole highway from Gongshan to Dulongjiang was opened. At the end of the year, the state-run caravan, which had been established for 40 years and had been managed by the Gongshan County Transportation Bureau, was officially disbanded. All the last more than 150 mules were auctioned.

Video, colour and sound (mono)

Jiang Yue and cinematographer Bi Jianfeng set out to capture a Lama Tibetan Opera group. They did not have much knowledge about filming documentaries at the time. Jiang Yue wanted to artificially construct the scene, but this idea was quickly dispelled by the director of the Tibetan Opera group, Yixi Jiacuo, who insisted that there must be audiences in order for the players to perform on camera. By the end of the show, the audience was touched, as was Jiang, who said that he realized that there was a different energy to his film because of the audience's presence.

Inversion, as the name implies, is to turn order and relationships upside-down. Humans admire the shapes, sounds and vigor of other forms of life, while also taking everything away from them, numbed by greed. The human need to take over all will eventually lead to self destruction.