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Produced by Kunming Film Studio in 1980. Adapted from the Chinese Opera of the same name. Directed by Zhang Baolai and Ma Changshu. Photography: Wen Yuzhang. Starring: Qiu Shirong, Wang Yuzhu, and Fan Fenglai.

Chinese opera film from 1980.

Battle for the central plains during the late Yuan dynasty.

Short film made by Chinese documentary filmmaker Fu Hongxing for the Central Newsreel and Documentary Film Studio of the People's Republic of China. Held as a print at the University of South Carolina. English-language narration.

Considered the father of video art in China, Zhang Peili has been producing incisive, internationally acclaimed works since the 1980s, building a career that ushered in and encompasses the entire history of Chinese video art. Keenly critical of his country’s authoritarian leadership, he sees his work as a form of protest revealing the forces shaping Chinese society and the lives of its citizens. Inspired by the endurance-testing videos of artists like Andy Warhol and Bruce Nauman, Zhang uses mundane, repetitive actions and scenes to demonstrate the absurdity and destructiveness of ritualized behavior and social norms. 30 x 30 (1988), his first video work, is an intentionally excruciating three-hour loop of a pair of gloved hands shattering a mirror, then piecing it back together—an acerbic critique of the rage for watching television, yet another form of thought-control in China.

"An animated short film of its era. It doesn't explain anything, but just serves as the background of an era. It can also be said to be another dimension of China." — Hao Zhiqiang

Tao-Tao the baby rabbit has arguments with their friends, then discovers echoes.

Documentary on the couple working as herdsmen on Qilian Mountains.

Documentary about the Mosuo people, an ethnic group living in China's Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces.

Educational documentary film produced in 1989.

Ren Shulin's graduation film, shot on 16mm during a summer camp in July 1982.

A Chinese/Vietnamese co-production, probably the most obscure knockoff of Rambo: First Blood Part II ever made. This was only released in mainland China.