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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.

Multimedia artist Jiang Zhi's second video art film. It's been confirmed by Jiang Zhi to be a lost film.

Never broadcasted film by Chinese documentary filmmaker Kang Jianning. Whether it's a feature or a short is not known.

A young man has left his home village in Hunan Province for Beijing, to make a living fluffing cotton of old quilts and cushions. He lives in a makeshift roadside shack and waits for customers to arrive. The filmmaker, a student at the Beijing Film Academy, befriends the young migrant and begins to record his daily life. The video shows him in his frustration and loneliness at his destitute life in the big city. An old hometown friend, now a college student, is not terribly happy to meet him again. Poverty and power relations within his family limit his ambitions and memories of an old girlfriend leave him confused.

Multimedia artist Jiang Zhi's third video art film. About a poet who had influenced a generation and was completely obliterated. Due to his special identity and the fate closely related to the turbulent times, the description of the characters inevitably does not involve history. But the author's interest is obviously not here, not in the poet's life experience and the social significance it may reveal. He used a variety of materials, including some symbolic historical images, old photos, interviews, and subtitles, to present the poet ’s life history and its background; he also inserted a scene drama performance: the index finger poem "Mad Dog" Obtained a visual interpretation. Through this absurd parable of survival, the author expressed his understanding of a poet and his destiny.

Documentary which follows the lives of a group of Tibetan herdsmen living on the Phala Grasslands in the northwest Tibetan plateau. This film follows the decision of a Tibetan nomad living far from any town who has invested money in a truck that doesn’t work.

Five people play the game of ‘Simon Says’ with LI Peng as the leader; May FUNG ,Yau CHING, Arthur CHANG and Alice POON are supposed to follow LI’s actions. It seems to go well at the beginning, yet no one can stand dictatorship. Some walk off in a huff while some continue. After all, only the leader sticks it out.

Produced one year after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, Diversion focuses on the immigration flush in Hong Kong. By combining footage from various sources, including government newsreels of the Victoria Harbour swimming contests, this video illustrates a personal reflection of a collective memory.

Shot in the style of a silent film from the early twentieth century, WILL/We Must is a satirical reflection on the state of affairs in the Chinese art world in the late 1990s. (M+ Catalogue Notes)

Documentary made for Oriental Time • Living Space program about Luo Hanghong, a man with disability but managed to run an electronic devices factory.

Documentary on "people's teachers", teachers employed by the local people rather than the state, about their lives and difficulties.

Documentary about people fighting against cancer.

Documentary on the two generations of the boatmen.

Qiu Zhijie spent five years copying Wang Xizhi’s (303–361) Lantingxu (‘Preface to the Orchid Pavilion’) one thousand times. The video shows the artist writing calligraphy with an ink brush. As the black ink fills the paper, the strokes lose their distinctiveness, and the text becomes illegible. Eventually, only a black rectangular field remains.

Three-channel installation. Videos capture the process of a person eating from 3 different angles simultaneously. One stationary camera shows a close-up of the person's chin; another stationary camera zooms in on the food container in color; lastly, a black-and-white surveillance camera is attached to the person's hand, recording the eating process in motion by moving between the mouth and the food container.

Documentary by Leng Yefu. Screened at the landmark November 1991 conference for Chinese New Documentary in Beijing.

Aired as part of People’s Home (百姓家园) program on Beijing Television. Chang Lixin encountered an abandoned child when she was only 24. This is the documentary on how she raised this child and other abandoned children just like her own daughter.

TV documentary about the city Chamdo (aka Changdu or Qamdo) in the eastern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

Documentary on a family of Nu ethnic group.

On March 1993, the Daguan Village in Jilin Province started to re-elect the members for the Village Committee. It was the first time for them to use the write-in election process.

Training Video for Hotel Service.

A videotape documentary about 1996 Hong Kong, where we can witness some historical moments and rare footages just before 1997.

A Chinese documentary and news report about the USSR after the 8.19 coup. The tape was released internally on Sep.30th, 1991. The host also had some hope that USSR might survive the collapse in the late 1991.

This is an ephemeral film about fire escape in China. The main scenes were taken from Tianjin and Beijing.

This safety/operational/procedural video will introduce you to the characteritics of LP gas and the correct way to use it, analyze the causes of various accidents in detail, and teach you the troubleshooting methods after the accident.

The power of science has enabled electricity to reach the human world and play an increasingly important role in production and life. Electricity is a commodity. To use this kind of civilized product, we must adopt a civilized attitude, pay attention to planning, and follow the principle of commodity exchange. The illegal use of electricity, and even the belief that "stealing electricity is not considered stealing", often causes family and social tragedies.

A documentary made in China,1992 about the viewpoint of the dissolution of USSR.

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.

Multimedia artist Jiang Zhi's first video art film. From his website: "Man is living humbly like a slave submitted to himself and his surroundings. But this humble life, living in solitude, silence, fantasy, weariness, and passion are sometimes so overwhelming that at times we really just want to fly. It’s one way to transcend or escape. Can we really escape this gravity and lift up? Which direction will we choose to fly?"

Screened in the New Asian Current section of the 1993 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival.

Film by performance artist Song Dong from the Wen Pulin Chinese Avant-Garde Art Archive.

A series of images of Sichuan teahouses shot with a handy camcorder by a young artist whose installations and paintings have been representative of Chinese contemporary art in exhibits around the world. The filmmaker explores emerging forms and space in the context of understanding a mechanism of information transmission, a theme that is also apparent in his installation works.

There are various pressures in Kampot's life. For example, he hopes that his wife will help him to have a son after six consecutive daughters; he is upset by the bank loan he owes for buying a tractor, and he is also worried about working outside. The son was not disappointed with the big money ... However, Kampot will not be overwhelmed by these troubles. Because life brought him many good friends, pleasant sunshine and quiet nights, under the blue clouds of the Tibetan plateau, spring harvest and autumn harvest, occasionally drinking and gambling with friends, and chanting songs, although the days are not rich, but they can find fun. When his wife finally gave birth to another son, Kampot gratefully praised nature and life from the bottom of his heart.

1995 film

This video provides a provocative look at the history of Hong Kong as a British colony in Asia, as constructed by the media. It combines TV commercials, British Government footage and films made during the Japanese occupation in the form of karaoke to evoke a ‘typical’ Hong Kong experience.