Screen/Society--Cine-East: East Asian Cinema--Memory Project [China]--"No Land"

Film Screening: "No Land" (Zhang Ping, 2015, 40 min, China, in Chinese w/English subtitles, Color, Digital) / "No Land" is a documentary about an old man in a deserted mountain village, digging a grave for himself. He is the filmmaker Zhang Ping's father, an anti-socialist opposing the Communist Party. He had a promising job in the city but was sent to the rural area for eighteen years and then retired as a laborer. When he was seventy, the privatization of factories made him return to the countryside again. Now in his eighties, he is preparing for his own decease. / About the filmmaker:
Zhang Ping, born in Hunan, 1977, writer, painter and filmmaker, and she is a participant in the Memory Project in 2013 and has her first documentary No Land in 2015. / Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwJcD-RNKWk / Presented by Duke University Libraries.