Old Genealogy
Gui Shuzhong
Release year: 2010
Run time: 58 min
Film type: Documentary
Synopsis
Records the entangled experience of changing a genealogy.
Records the experience of engraving movable type, hand-printed.
Director biography
Original named Ning Yuanguai, Gui is a poet and independent documentary director. He was born in 1967 in Ninghua County, a mountainous Hakka area in the northwest of Fujian Province. Gui has finished four documentaries about local Hakka folk culture: Yukou Paper, Old Genealogy, Chronicles of Hulling Rice, and Revive. He has also directed several short films, including Wugong Sutra and The Ballad of Spring.