Year 2001 - 441

Multimedia artist Jiang Zhi's sixth video art work. From his website: "The cruller is a popular food for Chinese people, who often treat them as breakfast. This is a short film full of humor. The person used the cruller as stage prop，and made a series of unimaginably strange actions in our daily life."

Wormwood’s Dog and Monkey Show was obviously compiled from a lot more material, which I found over at least a year and a half of hunting about. I spend a good deal of my free time hunting out films. It’s not just any sort of material. I wanted to find films that weren’t totally naïve. None of this stuff is home movies, though some of it almost is. And it’s not professional either. Nor is it newsreel quality. It’s a sort of studied, non-professional filmmaking. It’s by different people, obviously, but they all have a similar position in relation to the camera. To me there’s a sort of beautiful openness to that kind of filmmaking.

12-year-old Baheila lives with her family of nomadic shepherds in the Xinjiang province in Western China. Their tradition is to move with all their belongings. They have no eletricity at all. They regard their simple lives like the snow flakes coming to the earth and disappearing somewhere.