Documenting China’s Great Famine Part II: A Screening of “Self-Portrait: At 47 KM” with Director Zhang Mengqi

Zhang Mengqi graduated from the Dance Academy of China Minorities University in 2008. “Self-Portrait: Dreaming at 47 KM” (2013, 77 min, Chinese with English subtitles) was her second film for the Memory Project. 47 KM is the name of the village where Zhang’s grandfather lives. Zhang has said, “In the summer and winter of 2010 … I went back to the village, which seems disconnected from my current life, and re-discovered and came to better understand my grandfather, the old villagers who underwent the disaster of the famine fifty years ago, as well as the village, which always perplexed and embarrassed me.” Screening: 7:00-8:20 PM. Q & A with director Zhang (in Chinese with English translation): 8:30-9:15 PM.