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The Private Life of Fenfen

2013Movie28 min

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Fenfen's video diaries are mysteriously broadcast on televisions across China.

The Private Life of Fenfen is a documentary film experiment that tells its tragic love story as a video installation. In 2007, the filmmaker gave Fenfen—a feisty young migrant worker in southern China—a video camera with which to start filming her epic video diary. In the film, however, fragments of Fenfen's video life—constructed out of over 100 hours of footage—are broadcast "live" on TV in various migrant worker locations across China. Inside cheap restaurants, hole-in-the-wall cigarette shops, and alley hair salons, everyone is watching Fenfen and consuming her real life as would-be entertainment.

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Directed by
Leslie Tai

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November 24, 2013 · 28 min · Documentary

Released
November 24, 2013
Runtime
28 min
Genres
Documentary
Original language
English
Also spoken
Chinese
Made in
United States, China
Available in
75 countries