Hu Jie Movies

  • 2019
    The Observer

    The Observer

    The Observer

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    Dissident artist Hu Jie has managed to make more than 30 documentaries. Films like Though I Am Gone and Searching for Lin Zhao's Soul are vital to...

    The Observer
  • 2004
    The White Ribbon

    The White Ribbon

    The White Ribbon

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    In the spring of 2004, a female graduate student was killed at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, but it was confirmed on the school's website that...

    The White Ribbon
  • 2008
    Red Art

    Red Art

    Red Art

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    The launch and development of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution not only has a series of CCP Central Committee documents that have promoted...

    Red Art
  • 2005
    Painting For The Revolution: Peasants Paintings from HU County

    Painting For The Revolution: Peasants Paintings from HU County

    Painting For The Revolution: Peasants Paintings from HU County

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    Hu County, in suburban Xi’an, is famous for its peasant paintings, produced in 1958 during the Great Leap Forward. It became particularly...

    Painting For The Revolution: Peasants Paintings from HU County
  • 2004
    The Days of Huang Jing’s Mother

    The Days of Huang Jing’s Mother

    The Days of Huang Jing’s Mother

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    Hu Jie and Ai Xiaoming co-directed short film.

    The Days of Huang Jing’s Mother
  • 2007
    Tayuan

    Tayuan

    Tayuan

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    Tayuan is the location of the first museum of the Cultural Revolution in China. However, this important Cultural Revolution museum was established...

    Tayuan
  • 2006
    The Epic Of The Central Plains

    The Epic Of The Central Plains

    The Epic Of The Central Plains

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    In the late 1980s and early 1990s, in an attempt to stop the spread of AIDS, the Chinese government sought a “purer” blood supply from...

    The Epic Of The Central Plains
  • 2007
    Garden in Heaven

    Garden in Heaven

    Garden in Heaven

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    By following the case of Huang Jing, a woman teacher who died of date rape, this documentary captures changes in China between 2003 and 2005, before...

    Garden in Heaven
  • 2006
    Though I Am Gone

    Though I Am Gone

    Though I Am Gone

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    Filmmaker Hu Jie uncovers the tragic story of a teacher beaten to death by her students during the Cultural Revoution. In 1966, the Cultural...

    Though I Am Gone
  • 2013
    Spark

    Spark

    Spark

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    Spark was an underground publication that emerged in Gansu province in 1960, and was centered on the ongoing famine and the Great Leap Forward....

    Spark
  • 2024
    Historian Gao Hua

    Historian Gao Hua

    Historian Gao Hua

    02024HD

    Unreleased Hu Jie film.

    Historian Gao Hua
  • 1998
    Holy Light

    Holy Light

    Holy Light

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    The melody of the hymn echoes in the old streets and alleys of the city. This is strange in a country that regards religion as a spiritual opium. The...

    Holy Light
  • 2006
    Injustice

    Injustice

    Injustice

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    This is a short documentary about a daughter who has been searching for the truth about her father’s death during the Cultural Revolution, but...

    Injustice
  • 1970
    Red August

    Red August

    Red August

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    Unreleased film by Hu Jie, shot between 2009 and 2016, editing completed in November 2023. This film takes as its central thread the experiences of...

    Red August
  • 1970
    A Love Letter to the Motherland

    A Love Letter to the Motherland

    A Love Letter to the Motherland

    01970HD

    Unreleased Hu Jie film.

    A Love Letter to the Motherland
  • 2010
    Artists House

    Artists House

    Artists House

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    Hu Jie short film.

    Artists House
  • 1998
    Peasant-Run Factory

    Peasant-Run Factory

    Peasant-Run Factory

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    One of Hu Jie's 'Farmers Working in the City' films. The city is developing rapidly, with tall buildings and highways. Behind this bustling city,...

    Peasant-Run Factory
  • 2022
    Brief Phrase

    Brief Phrase

    Brief Phrase

    02022HD

    Hu Jie short film.

    Brief Phrase
  • 2011
    Looking Back on the West March

    Looking Back on the West March

    Looking Back on the West March

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    This film tells the story of a war in Tibet in 1912 through information and descendants of the Western Expeditionary Army.

    Looking Back on the West March
  • 2016
    Cultural Revolution Posters

    Cultural Revolution Posters

    Cultural Revolution Posters

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    This film demonstrates the characteristics of Cultural Revolution art through a large number of paintings during the Cultural Revolution, and...

    Cultural Revolution Posters