CHENG INTERCULTURAL DOCUMENTARIES
INTIMATE PORTRAITS OF MODERN CHINA
現代中國人文肖像 - 程一若跨文化紀錄片系列
CHENG DOCUMENTARIES
INTERCULTURAL PORTRAITS OF MODERN CHINA
現代中國人文肖像
跨文化紀錄片系列
程一若電影集錦
CHINA GOLD RUSH
《東方淘金》2000
52min
Against the backdrop of millennial fervor, filmmaker Joanne Cheng journeys from Times Square to Tiananmen Square seeking a definition of China on the eve of the twenty-first century. Interviewing Internet surfers, business executives, avant-garde artists, punk rockers, “China Watchers” and Westerners living in China, she reveals a society in transitional mode as it moves rapidly towards modernity.
《东方淘金》简介
在全球喜迎千禧的沸腾时刻，影人程的镜头飘扬过海，从时代广场到天安门广场，追寻21世纪初中国改革变化的大千风貌，影片采访了网络游戏者，企业老板，前卫艺术家，朋克音乐人和生活工作在中国的西方人。影片探索主题环绕“最大变化和互联网”，“从商和世贸”， “媒体和误解”，“跨国婚姻和爱情”， “传统和历史”， “朋克音乐浴青年”和“儿童和未来”。《东方淘金》激情刻画千禧中国东西方交融前沿动态，探讨焦点挑战西方人对中国的偏见与误解
MAMA'S GOLD
The Orphans of Shangrila
《金娃娃》2003
92min
MAMA’S GOLD is a heartfelt story of one woman (China Mama) and her 300 ethnic orphans, aged from 2 to 17 years old, many who are survivors of the devastating earthquakes and poverty that struck southwest China in 1996 and 1998. Seen through the close observation of the orphanage’s daily life, the film reveals the painful healing process of orphans struggling to cope with the psychological scars of their past. A direct comment on survival, loneliness, and the universal human struggle in the face of adversity.
《金娃娃》 简介
《金娃娃》讲的是中国西南香格里拉地区一个妈妈、三百个孤儿幸存自然灾难，在爱与磨难中相依为命的感人故事。全片通过影人第一人称的独白、对孤儿院日常生活点滴的捕捉以及对座落在深山高湖孤儿家乡的回访，细腻刻划了孤儿在新的母爱中愈合心灵伤痕的艰难过程。本片同时通过记录孤儿院与美国捐款人之间的一场官司透视中国改革开放后慈善事业的发展中令人深思的问题以及成人之间的世态炎凉。 《金娃娃》婉如一幅略带凄美又不失壮丽的现代中国人文肖像。
GOLDEN LOTUS
The Legacy of Bound Feet
《中國金蓮》2006
59min
Set against the backdrop of 21st-century China, the filmmaker searches along the banks of the northern Yellow River and in remote villages in southwest Yunnan for the last survivors of the Bound Feet Tradition. Through the exclusive portrayal of 12 women of a bygone era, the film reveals one of the darkest secrets of Chinese civilization and women’s changing destiny in a society once, and perhaps still, dominated by men.
《中国金莲》 简介
《中国金莲》纪录中国最后一代金莲 的足迹和声音和一段令人反思即将消失的历史。从北方黄河壶口瀑布旁的窑洞到南方的云南黄花地中的古寨深院，影人纪录捕捉近１２位（年龄为106－78岁） 老人包括杨会修剪纸艺人。影人以独特跨文化的视角，在真情的人文关怀中大胆揭密中华文明。
C/o BUTTERFLY
The Rhapsody of The Womb
《一蝶》2015
72min
In c/o Butterfly, the viewer encounters an abortion, enters a womb, a tunnel, a stream-of-consciousness to meet two women at a crossroad. PHOENIX, in her 40s, unmarried, wants a child via IVF; BUTTERFLY, in her 20s, entangled with a man of power, aborts one. Viewers walk along the chilly interiors of the nightmares of the two women haunted by the spirit of the crushed fetus who lives on.
c/o BUTTERFLY, a hybrid of documentary with animation, explores some of the core issues of human dilemma: birth, death, loss of innocence, all associated with the womb, the source of life.
《一蝶》- 子宫狂想曲 简介
中年不孕的凤无意间目睹了一场惊人的流产后亲手埋葬死婴。噩梦中妙龄的蝶青春有悔，不甘被嬉游数女肌肤之间的老大所控。一岁的女孩点燃成人的希望但很快被抢入黑洞中，蝶也消失了，只有地下阴魂的梦在倒流的时空中斑斓绽放
RED FAREWELL
The Secret of Longevity
《喜喪》2019
A poetic visual elegy celebrating life in the time of death. The film reveals the elaborate rituals of a traditional Chinese “Happy Funeral” for a 104-year-old foot-binding woman in Yunnan province, southern China. An investigation into the secret of longevity, tracing the wisdom of Buddhism.
《喜丧》簡介
《喜丧》是《中国金莲》续集，通过展现一个104岁缠足高寿老人的中国民俗葬礼的纷繁仪式和习俗，描绘了一个中国南部边远地区四世同堂大家庭的淳朴肖像，揭示中国传统文化中的孝与佛的真谛，以及生死的神秘与神圣。
CHENG LEGACY
An Ancestral Quest for Modern China
2026
《问祖程脈》
20 Ep x 25min/集
To defy historical amnesia, J.J. Cheng travels from Beijing into the vast heartlands of China in search of her ancestral roots, long obscured by time. From Confucian Wuyuan, the birthplace of her grandfather Cheng Zhen Jun, to Huangzhou, the cradle of China’s first exposition, and Anqing along the Yangtze River, Cheng retraces the footsteps of China's first generation of modernization pioneers. Her quest culminates in Wuxi, along the Grand Canal, where she discovers the remains of
Cheng's long-lost Family Tomb — a profound moment when the enduring spirit of her family reveals itself.
《問祖程脈》簡介
旅美華人作家程一若拒絕歷史失憶, 展開反思性中華尋根之旅，追尋祖父程振鈞那被時光掩埋的生死足跡.
從北京到儒鄉婺源- 程振鈞的出生地，再到首屆西湖博覽會發源地杭州, 再到長江之畔的安慶，徽公路的起點三陽歙縣，以及無錫古運河畔惠山腳下沉寂九載的程氏家族墓地， 程進行了一場中華民族家國命運交織的百年溯源精神之旅。