Ma Zhandong

Ma Zhandong

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Documentary Filmmaker. His film One Day in May won Best Documentary at 2011 Hong Kong Chinese Documentary Film Festival; Haishiwan Lao Zhao won Humanitarian Award of Documentary Competition at 12th Chinese Independent Film Festival.

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The Square 2011

This experimental short, shot in a number of public spaces across China, explores the ways individual self-expression may in fact become codified in collective forms—or, if you like, how collective performance extends into the age of the supposed individual.
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Haishiwan 2011

The Third Front movement described by sons of workers who relocated in Gansu.
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One Day in May 2011

On May 12th, Deng Shengyin from Beichuan was working outside. When he heard the news, his wife Zhu Xiaorong, who was in the county seat, had fortunately escaped the disaster, but the child who had just gone to school never returned. This film records the living condition of Zhu Xiaorong's family in Beichuan for more than a year after the disaster.