Film Screening: “Zhuang Wei’s Witness: Return of the Survivor” (Zhuang Wei, 2026)
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Location: Rubenstein Arts Center, Film Theater
Zhuang Wei, 2026, 89 min, China, Chinese with English subtitles
---Q&A w/ director Zhuang Wei follows screening!---
Part of the 2026 Memory Project Symposium. Free and open to the public.
Synopsis:
Returning to the unfamiliar Chaoshan homeland to live, I encountered my grand-uncle Ajun, who had returned from Cambodia.
Carrying stories of surviving the Khmer Rouge, he stirred my life as I tried to become a witness.
About the filmmaker:
Zhuang Wei (A Zui, means “mouth” in Chinese), born in 1999, is a documentary filmmaker and freelance artist from Chaoshan, Guangdong. She also engages in artistic practices across different mediums that intervene in society.
In 2021, she joined the “Folk Memory Project” at Caochangdi Workstation, where she created the feature-length documentaries Zhuang Wei's Mouth (2024) and Zhuang Wei's Testimony: The Survivor Returns (2026). She is now processing her long-term filming in the ancestral village “Wushi Village.”
Sponsor: Asian/Pacific Studies Institute
Co-Sponsor(s): AMES Presents; Duke Libraries; Duke Libraries Global Studies Department; Office of the Dean of Arts & Humanities; Center for Documentary Studies; MFA|EDA; Cinematic Arts (Screen/Society)
Zhuang Wei, 2026, 89 min, China, Chinese with English subtitles
---Q&A w/ director Zhuang Wei follows screening!---
Part of the 2026 Memory Project Symposium. Free and open to the public.
Synopsis:
Returning to the unfamiliar Chaoshan homeland to live, I encountered my grand-uncle Ajun, who had returned from Cambodia.
Carrying stories of surviving the Khmer Rouge, he stirred my life as I tried to become a witness.
About the filmmaker:
Zhuang Wei (A Zui, means “mouth” in Chinese), born in 1999, is a documentary filmmaker and freelance artist from Chaoshan, Guangdong. She also engages in artistic practices across different mediums that intervene in society.
In 2021, she joined the “Folk Memory Project” at Caochangdi Workstation, where she created the feature-length documentaries Zhuang Wei's Mouth (2024) and Zhuang Wei's Testimony: The Survivor Returns (2026). She is now processing her long-term filming in the ancestral village “Wushi Village.”
Sponsor: Asian/Pacific Studies Institute
Co-Sponsor(s): AMES Presents; Duke Libraries; Duke Libraries Global Studies Department; Office of the Dean of Arts & Humanities; Center for Documentary Studies; MFA|EDA; Cinematic Arts (Screen/Society)
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Where is it happening?
Rubenstein Arts Center at Duke University, 2022 Campus Dr, Durham, NC 27708-9940, United States
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Host or PublisherAsian/Pacific Studies Institute at Duke University
