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Wu Wenguang is the pioneer of independent Chinese documentaries. Being a passionate Maoist during the final years of the Cultural Revolution, he was a faithful tool of the communist party as a student farmer and later determined to become a school teacher. But when Mao died, Wu realized that there is nothing to believe in but yourself. He dismissed the party’s predestined plans and moved to Beijing to take a chance as a writer while making a living at the local TV station. Surrounded by other individuals in the Chinese underground art scene, Wu began to find interest in interviewing his friends, which resulted in his first documentary “Bumming in Beijing” (1990). One year after the Tiananmen Square massacre, the film was screened overseas and laid, almost by accident, the foundation for China’s New Documentary Movement. In the follow-up documentary, “1966, My Time in the Red Guards”, Wu Wenguang interviews five former Red Guards,...