How to Move your Ancestors
How to Move
your Ancestors
by Shuang Yu
How to Move your Ancestors
Video • 08:45 • China • Chinese (Zhejiang Province dialect)
In Eastern China, my home village survived a wave of reservoir-related demolitions but lost most of our farmland to resettlement zones. My uncle became my cameraman to document the change, while I responded to his video letters with drawings. This film is part of an ongoing artistic research about self-narration in relation to the shifting landscape.
ABOUT THE FILMMAKER
Shuang Yu (she/her) (b. 1997) is a documentary filmmaker from China. Her recent works focus on her grandfather’s village in eastern China, where her current artistic research explores self-narration in relation to the shifting landscape. Her last two films, Old Mei in Huangpotan Village (2021) and Mao in Huangpotan Village (2022), explore traces of historical and ideological transformations within the sense of self. Shuang is a Master's student at the Netherlands Film Academy and holds a B.A. in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University. She previously participated in the Folk Memory Project, a collective documentary initiative recording oral histories of Chinese farmers.
