WU Wenguang Portrait

WU Wenguang was born in Kunming, the capital city of Yunnan Province, Southwest China in 1956. After graduating from high school in 1974, WU was sent to the countryside where he worked as a farmer for four years.
Between 1978 and 1982, he studied Chinese Literature in Yunnan University. Following this, WU worked as a high school teacher for three years in Kunming and the No.2 Pasture of Nilka County, Xinjiang successively. He later worked at a TV station as a journalist and editor for four years. Since 1988, he has stayed in Beijing and works as an independent documentary filmmaker, freelance writer and dance/theater producer. WU initiated the China Village Documentary Project in 2005 and launched the Folk Memory Project in 2010.
WU has completed ten feature documentaries, including Bumming in Beijing (1990), 1966, My Time in the Red Guards (1993), Cosmopolitan (1995), Jiang Hu: Life on the Road (1999), Dance with Farm Workers (2001), You Are Foreigners (2003), Fuck Cinema (2005), Bare Your Staff (2010), Treating (2010), and Because of Hunger (2013).
He has also created a number of short films, namely, Diary: Snow, November 21, 1998 (1999), Public Space (2000), and Search: Hamlet (2002).
As a writer, WU has published books including: Bumming in Beijing, Revolution in 1966, Reports of Jiang Hu, and Camera Lens Just Like Eyes. He is also editor in chief of a series entitled Scenes (three volumes).