民间记忆计划: 吴文光

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Jonathan Kaiman, Survivors Tell the Camera the Hidden Tale of China's Great Famine. Los Angeles Times, Oct 14, 2015
www.latimes.com/world/great-read ... 20151014-story.html
("Since 2010, the project's 200 or so volunteers have filmed more than 1,300 interviews with elderly villagers across the country, seeking to record their voices before they die")

Note:
(a) Wu Wenguang  吴文光 (born 1956 in Yunnan)
(b) "Wu spent the early part of his career ensconced in cinema verite, finding subjects, telling stories and showing his films at festivals around the world. Then, about a decade ago, weary of the form and exhausted by the constant travel, he tried something unexpected: He let his subjects do the filming themselves."

cinéma vérité (n): "French: “truth cinema * * * The invention of relatively inexpensive, portable, but thoroughly professional 16-millimetre equipment—and the synchronous sound recorder—facilitated the development * * * its goal was essentially the capturing of the reality of a person, a moment, or an event without any rearrangement for the camera"
http://www.britannica.com/art/cinema-verite
(c) The [Folk] Memory Project  民间记忆计划

(d) "He fell in with a few young artists, writers and photographers trying to eke out a living in the nation's capital; using a Betacam borrowed from the CCTV studio, he began to film their lives. Two years later, in 1990, the footage became his first film, a searing, stripped-down documentary called 'Bumming in Beijing.' "

fall in: "fall in with: to begin associating with <she fell in with a bad crowd>"
www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fall in
(e) "Since 2010, the project has continued to grow. Wu has formed a partnership with Duke University, which secured a $40,000 grant from the Assn. for Asian Studies to organize, reformat and eventually digitize his archives."

The Memory Project. Digital Collections, Duke University Libraries, undated
library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/memoryproject/