Everything started in the 90s when the digital revolution and the emergence of the first camcorders coincided with the Chinese documentarians’ need to record the rapidly changing post-Tiananmen reality. Wu Wenguang’s “Bumming in Beijing” (1990) became the first documentary outside of the official channels in China, and the whole wave of guerilla filmmaking was to … Continue reading From the Margins of China: The State of Independent Documentary in the PRC