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Multimedia artist Jiang Zhi's sixth video art work. From his website: "The cruller is a popular food for Chinese people, who often treat them as breakfast. This is a short film full of humor. The person used the cruller as stage prop，and made a series of unimaginably strange actions in our daily life."

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

Documentary film about the life of blind musician Lan Yue.

On the periphery of every city there live the poor migrant peasants looking for a better life in City. Although the shabby living condition, burst of laugh of two years old Wadan and her parents could be cached from time to time. The film depicts the kind and sincere character of the Chinese peasant and tries to give a positive outlook of their life.

Under the influence of Caroline Leaf, White Snake employs sand to retell the famous Chinese folk story in an innovative way: the faithful love is replaced by human cruelty; the eternal memory is substituted by a fractured sense of time

The story tells the dream work of an old painter. When the inspiration dries up, the protagonist attempts to commit suicide, enters the space in the picture in the hallucinations, realizes the inspiration of creation, and leaves the masterpiece-running horse, carrying the last life of the old painter, galloping away.

A movie about the Beichuan Middle School collapse in the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake.

Join celebrated anthropologist Wade Davis as he tracks indigenous cultures, each unique for the preservation of their customs in the face of modernization. As he investigates these people heading towards an uncertain future, Davis highlights a fundamental question: what does it mean to be human?

In 1910, the Chinese were commissioned by the French to construct a rail connection between the Chinese Yunnan province and Vietnam. In very little time, this turned the sleepy village of Bise (Jade) into a lively stopover. Director Yu Jian quietly observes the daily bustle along the railroad tracks that are populated by traders, sellers of sweets, passengers and railroad employees. Initially, we only hear the surrounding sounds (dogs, birds, the radio), but gradually more and more people tell about their memories and ambitions. A land worker, for instance, recollects the era of collective farming, and how he made his toiling comrades laugh by singing a song. Another calls attention to the shifting opinion about marrying people off. We also hear how the railroad workers are edified by a memo from the authorities that praises good work ethic and once more states the security regulations.

Dance With Me is a documentary completed by Li Hong in 2001. It describes the emotional life of a group of citizens dancing ballroom in Beijing Dongdan Park.

This is a movie that focuses on survival and faces death. The bald head and his parents and grandpa's family stayed on the mountain. The family made tea for a living, and the days were monotonous and calm. In the fall, bald experienced some things: his friends taking a trip to work; he has not the beginning of the end of love; a good friend of sudden death; and the failure of the marriage; Big Brother house the child's birth; grandfather died ......Continue as usual, just like the heavy snow on the mountain.

A kaleidoscope of self-devouring autoeroticism.

About three HIV+ and heroine-addicted kids living in the streets of the industrial city of Chengdu (Sichuan province). Documenting a growing social phenomenon, made possible by the constant influx of peasants seeking industrial jobs, their turning to drugs to ease their discomfort at city life and a strange loophole in Chinese law pertaining to juvenile delinquents, the piece made the round of international film festivals, from Vienna to Yamagata.

In a sewing workshop, the making of a piece of clothing is filmed in detail while we listen to a phone conversation between a Taiwanese mother and her daughter, the director of this film. The mother spends her days and nights toiling away so she can afford to send her daughter to school in the United States. They are discussing the credit card bill. Not only their physical distance, but especially their emotional one manifests itself in an increasingly emphatic way. Their worlds are light-years away from one another, which leads to miscommunication and lack of understanding. A talk between two people who love each other is reduced to a business transaction; after all, the language of the dollar is universal. Transactions is about the boundaries of a love that supposedly knows no bounds.

This film documents how the residents in Kong-liao, a picturesque fishing town,have been fighting against a nuclear plant intruding their beautiful hometown since 1988,the year when they established a community anti-nuclear plant club.It has been a bitter long journey in the past 16 years.However,the switch of governing power forced another political strorm of changing nuclear policy.It was in effect a torture for the Kong-liao people.Who would have known the stories behind the beautiful coastal line?

With a camera and one simple question, the Chinese filmmaker Liu Wei heads for the University of Beijing and Tiananmen Square. "Do you know what day it is today?" he asks passers-by, mainly students and young people. "June 4th, 2005," most people answer correctly, but many of them already guess where the conversation is leading. This is the 16th anniversary of the student uprising at Tiananmen Square, which was bloodily quashed by the government.

At the turn of the century, China experienced drastic transformations in its socioeconomic structure and political system, which brought forth the acceptance of many concepts that had previously been opposed. These included making quick money, "selling" your body, and accepting hidden pornography. Using an inconspicuous hidden camera over the course of several days, Cui Xiuwen artfully captures how nightclub women act during this time – including dressing up, counting money, speaking to family members, and negotiating deals inside the ladies' room at one of the most popular nightclubs in Beijing.

Xiao Jia is a painter; Xiao Yi is a singer. They are a lesbian couple. They live peacefully together and build a world of two people that is pure and beautiful, yet also fragile and self-enclosed.

Four armed police soldiers who work guarding an embassy in Beijing have ended their term of service. These four young men, ranging in age from 20 to 25, all worked as film projectionists for the squad, and after the final outdoor screening, each soldier marks leaving the squad in his own personal way. Ren Yong goes to Tiananmen to give blood, while Fang Lei resolves to lose his virginity. Rou Quan stands sentry one last time at his former place of work, and Cai Fengcai sings at a party for ex-servicemen. The four then leave the squad behind them, with three boarding trains back to their respective family homes, while one remains to work and be with his girlfriend in Beijing, a city which still feels unfamiliar after nine years.

Extras is a 2001 fly-on-the-wall Chinese documentary film by director Zhu Chuanming. The documentary has been said to be tinged with social criticisms in its observations of the lives and dreams of China's poorly paid film extras.

2006 Project by Zhang Peili

Jiang Zhi's The Nail documents a sensational and controversial episode in the urban development of Chongqing, dubbed the “Nail House”. When developers knocked on their door, Wu Ping and her husband refused to sell their house, and the husband moved back into the house in fierce resistance. The court case dragged on from 2003 to 2007, and whilst the couple refused any settlement offer from the property developer, the land surrounding the house turned into a construction site, and water and electricity were cut off, while the “nail house” stood tall and alone like a fortress under siege. Nearing the final days of final official appeal, hordes of journalists and locals gathered around the site, while the protagonist, Wu Ping, valiantly defended her property rights under the rule of law. The “Nail House” was ultimately demolished.

The local government of Liaoning province restricted the fishing time for jellyfish on one of the days between July 15th and 30th, this is the documentary on those fishermen waiting the confirmed date to come.

91-year-old Tan Bangwu is a well-known veteran boatman in the Three Gorges region. His four sons are all among the post-relocation migrants of the Three Gorges Project. After the reservoir began filling in June 2003, most of their mountain land was submerged, making their livelihood a serious concern. This film, spanning a decade, documents the mass relocation of Three Gorges migrants, the historic transformation from deep gorges to wide lakes; it captures the lived experience and emotional upheaval of an old boatman and his descendants amid sweeping change; and it preserves the arduous history and resilient survival spirit of the boatmen of the Three Gorges region.

After his divorce, 50-year-old Laozhu had been living in the mountains of Beijing suburb with his girlfriend Xiaowang. For this, the Beijing Zhongyuan family church regarded it as adultery and refused to issue him the Holy Communion. Then, Laozhu had a Christian wedding ceremony and began to host a Bible-reading group at his home in the city. In the beginning, the members increased gradually, but due to different understandings of the belief, Laozhu conflicted with them continuously, from in the city to up the mountain. This led to the decrease of the member-number. As the lease expired, the church was forced to move around in restaurants and bathing centers… In the end, the church disappeared and the members scattered everywhere…

Yang’s father was sent to prison when she was 13. The Children’s Village, a shelter for children of criminals, took her in and provided her with basic education. However, Yang did not feel at home there. She hoped to one day leave the village and for that day to arrive soon. Yang managed to leave the Children’s Village before reaching 18. Yet just after celebrating her 18th birthday in the city, she suddenly vanished without notice. No one knew of her whereabouts. Director Hu tried to trace her with his camera, following clues that might lead him to her. Little by little, through this process, he was able to understand Yang various choices in life.