Zajia Lab Film Platform: Fool's Village

director: Zou Xueping

length: 74 minutes

made in: 2014

Synopsis

This is my fifth time coming back to my own village, where I was born and brought up. After I graduated from college, when I was staying in my village, I was always suspected and judged by the village people. Xizhu grandpa was called ‘fool’ by other villagers, and Zengxiang aunty was looked down by others. They come into my life, and I stayed with them. Their naïve and strange thought made think about my village in a new way.

In this quite ‘normal’ village, who are normal people? In those normal people’s eyes, am I another fool of this village?

Bio of Zou Xueping

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), Children's Village (2012) and Trash Village (2014). Foolish Village is her fifth film. She also created and performed with Memory: Hunger (2010), Memory: Monument (2012) and Memory: Trash (2013) young artists from CCD Workstation cooperated with students from Salzberg Art University, creating a piece named Show me your wounds, premiering in CCD.

Admission: 30RMB (includes a soft drink)

Date: Jan 6

Time: 20:00- 22:00

Address: No. 17 Dongsitoutiao, Dongcheng District

东城区东四头条17号

Source: www.thebeijinger.com