Jia Zhang-ke
Selected Filmography:
1995: Xiao Shan Going Home (short)
1996: Du Du (short)
1997: Xiao Wu
2000: Platform
2001: In Public (doc)
2002: Unknown Pleasures
2005: The World
2006: Dong (doc)
2006: Still Life
2008: Useless (doc)
2009: 24 City
2011: Yulu (doc)
2013: I Wish I Knew (doc)
2013: A Touch of Sin
2015 : Mountains My Departountains My Depart
2018 : The Eternals
2020 : So Close My Land (d)
Selection:
Jia Zhang-ke was born in 1970 in Fenyang, Shanxi, China. His interest in film began in the early 1990s, as an art student at the Shanxi University in Taiyuan. He wrote a first novel in 1991. Two years later, he entered Beijing Film Academy. In 1995, he founded China’s first independent production association, The Youth Experimental Film Group. He graduated from Beijing Film Academy in 1997 and made his debut feature, Xiao Wu.
