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Rooms with Mao's Images
Cong Feng
Release year: 2015
Run time: 138 mins
Film type: Documentary
Synopsis
I shot this film in Gulang, Gansu Province, where I also made two other films, When I returned to this footage, I realised I’d been to the houses of many farmers who still had Mao Zedong pictures hanging on their walls. Though the Maoist era ended decades ago, Mao himself is retained in folk belief, a quasi-deity in this formally atheistic country. This film is about these people.
Director biography
CONG Feng, born in Chengde in 1972, is a filmmaker and writer, and serves on the editorial board of Film Auteur. He has previously worked at the National Satellite Meteorology Centre of China and as cultural editor for The International Herald Leader. His major films include Stratum I: The Visitors (2013), Stratum II: Asthenosphere (2021), and Another Part of the World: Ghosts and Their After-Images (2024), among others. His most recent publication is a poetry collection titled So-Called History (2025).
