Zhang Mengqi

Zhang Mengqi was born in 1987. Lives in Beijing and Diaoyutai Village(Hubei) She graduated from the Dance Academy of Minzu University of China in 2008. Since 2009, she has been a resident filmmaker and choreographer at Caochangdi Workstation in Beijing. In 2010 she participated in The Folk Memory Project. Since 2010, Mengqi has made nine feature-length documentaries filmed in her father’s village in Hebei Province, known as her ‘self-portrait series’, a decade-long creation between exploring history and illuminating reality, and a film a year, the formation of a unique group of works.Her film... show more