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Chinese documentary
Independent documentary in China is usually dated from the early 1990s, when filmmakers began taking portable cameras out of the state studios to film ordinary people at length: Wu Wenguang's Bumming in Beijing (流浪北京, 1990) is often named as the start of what critics called the New Documentary Movement. Cheaper digital cameras from the late 1990s widened the field. Much of this work shares a style: long observation, little narration, and subjects allowed to speak for themselves. Films about demolition and relocation, rural life, migrant workers and family history are a large part of it, and opinions differ on how such films should handle the people they show. 苏小雨's proposal sits in this tradition. Choosing a small subject — one lane, one woman, one year — is a common way to make a large change visible without speaking for everyone.