Screen/Society--Cine-East: East Asian Cinema--The Memory Project--"Trash Village"

FILM SCREENING: "Trash Village" (Zou Xueping, 2013, 82 min, China, Chinese w/ English subtitles, DVD) / Filmmaker's statement: This is the fourth film in my "Zoujiacun" series within the Folk Memory Project. In 2013, I came back to my village and faced the trash problem all over the village. The children and I tried to improve the environment. This was a tough fight against the trash and ideas of villagers. I felt like the trash was in my heart. The lonely solitary life of 95-year-old grandma Sha and her 49-year-old son Xizhu are also in this film. This film is about the progress that I fight with. / Screened at the China Independent Film Festival, Nanjing, China, 2013 / About the Filmmaker: Zou Xueping, was born in 1985. In 2009 she graduated from the China Fine Arts Academy. She is currently a resident artist at CCD Workstation. She has documentaries "Mom" (2008), "The Starving Village" (2010), "Satiated Village" (2011) won Excellent Award of Beijing Independent Film Festival 2012, "Children's Village" (2012) and "Trash Village" (2013).