Villager Documentary Project IV

Caochangdi Workstation is an independent space which found by filmmaker Wu Wenguang in Beijing 2005. In the summer of 2009, began a documentary film project to chronicle the events that took place between the “3 year famine” period of 1959 and 1961. “By the summer of 2010, we had 21 people participating, making this Caochangdi Workstation’s landmark ‘folk memory project.’ These 21 participants went back on their own accord to their respective villages to interview and take notes for this event. Among the participants were people aged above 60, people with experience in making documentaries, theatre and other arts-related individuals, as well as existing university students.” This project had a snowball effect, with an increasing number of participants joining in, creating a large volume of records and village interviews for the archives.