At Home in the World, Shihai weijia (1995) dir. Wenguang Wu

A sequel to the great documentary Bumming in Beijing, this movie catches up with some of the artists five years later. A year after he made Bumming in Beijing, Wu Wenguang visited his main figures in Austria, France, Italy and the USA. The desire to escape everything, which was the most compelling feeling while they were still living in Beijing, has meanwhile faded and they are now confronted with the dynamics of emigration. Wu asks what it means to feels deserted by ones own country and how it is when one reacts by deserting it in turn: Are you still the people you used to be What does it mean to be an artist in a foreign country By becoming personally more involved in this film than he had been in his first, even to the point of including discussions with his girlfriend, who accompanied him on the trip, Wu creates a supremely intimate atmosphere which even involves the viewer.