Ci Zhang

2023

May May Miller ( Ci Zhang) was born in Yunnan Province, China. She lives in California. She has written novels and directed documentary films, but she is best known for her appearance in Wu Wenguang’s path breaking independent documentary film Bumming in Beijing.

Фильмы

流浪北京

Wu Wenguang

Bo Gao, Zhang Xiaping

A documentary following five young artists from around China, who travelled to Beijing in the 1980s to work as freelancers, exploring their lives, careers, and what aspirations they may have for the future.

Bumming in Beijing: The Last Dreamers

7.2 ⚠️ 1990

Китай, документальный

At Home in the World

Wu Wenguang

Bo Gao, Ci Zhang

A year after he made Bumming in Beijing, Wu Wenguang visited his main figures in Austria, France, Italy and the USA. The desire to escape everything, which was the most compelling feeling while they were still living in Beijing, has meanwhile faded and they are now confronted with the dynamics of emigration. Wu asks what it means to feels deserted by one's own country and how it is when one reacts by deserting it in turn.

At Home in the World

1995