| Abstract | The article focuses on Folk Memory Project, a collective filmmaking project on the great famine of China of 1950s using digital video. Topics include the project organizing filmmakers to return to their home villages to interview elders about the famine, majority of the filmmakers in the project being women and Zhang Mengqi's four-film series 'Self-Portrait' with the first film reflecting that struggle for an individual past is anchored in a collective gender identity and consciousness.
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