The Memory Project Reception and Short Clips

This October, Duke will be hosting Chinese documentary filmmaker Wu Wenguang and three of his fellow documentarians for a two-week residency and the launch of a new digital oral history collection. Starting in 2010, Wu recruited numerous young filmmakers for the Memory Project, dispatching them to 246 villages across twenty rural provinces. More than 1,220 elderly villagers were interviewed and recorded. These interviews also gave the amateur filmmakers from Wu¿s studio a chance to leave the bustling chaos of the cities and reconnect with the history of the their families and their nation.Fore more information about other events during the residency, please visit: http://blogs.library.duke.edu/blog/2014/09/12/memory-project-duke/