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The Memory Project: "Knocking on Memory’s Door with a Video Camera"

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dc.contributor.authorWu, Wenguang
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Mengqi
dc.contributor.authorLiu, Xiaolei
dc.contributor.authorZhang, Ping
dc.contributor.authorTong, Nguyet
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-16T19:31:17Z
dc.date.available2017-06-16T19:31:17Z
dc.date.issued2016-11
dc.description.abstractCCCI Lecture Series: Filmmakers from The Memory Project at Caochangdi Workstation in Beijing - "Knocking on Memory's Door with a Video Camera" November 7, 2016 We are walking down Memory Lane. We are continuing to remember. CCD Workstation began the Folk Memory Documentary Project in 2010. More than twenty participants traveled back to their family villages to film and interview village elders. Their research focused on the years from 1959 to 1961, a period known as the Great Chinese Famine. A handful of people took video cameras and went back to their respective villages. They went in search of the old generation still living there in dim, stark houses. They went to uncover the memories hidden deep inside the villagers. Each filmmaker had some prior relationship to the village. Some of them were born or grew up there, some still live there, and some had never lived in the village but had parents or grandparents who had. For the old people in the village, this was the first time anyone had come with a camera to ask them to open their memory chests. Here was the younger generation, leaping over their parents’ generation-- that generation wiped clean of memory- to ask the elders about the past. This meeting may be awkward and uncomfortable but it is also an exciting adventure. Their stories are now documentary films presented in this program. Excerpts from interviews with each filmmaker shown at the beginning. Co-sponsored by the Department of Performing & Media Arts and the Internationalizing the Cornell Curriculum Grant.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipCornell East Asia Program and the Department of Performing & Media Artsen_US
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/51491
dc.relation.hasversionVimeo video "CCCI Fall 2016: The Memory Project" at https://vimeo.com/193380960en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/*
dc.subjectChinaen_US
dc.subjectcontemporary Chinaen_US
dc.subjectdocumentaryen_US
dc.subjectmemoryen_US
dc.subjectvillageen_US
dc.subjectfamineen_US
dc.titleThe Memory Project: "Knocking on Memory’s Door with a Video Camera"en_US
dc.title.alternativeCCCI Fall 2016 November 7, 2016 lectureen_US
dc.title.alternativeCCCI Fall 2016: The Memory Projecten_US
dc.typevideo/moving imageen_US

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