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2023
2024

May the Soil Be Everywhere

Pare Lorentz Documentary Fund Grantee

  • Yehui Zhao wearing a black shirt with long dark hair, bangs, and redish lipstick. A body of water and a clouds are in the back ground.
    Yehui Zhao, Director
May the Soil Be Everywhere film still

About the Project

In a remote Chinese village, a peasant family survived wars, revolution, and a devastating famine. Hardship eventually forced the family to scatter. Against the backdrop of rapid urbanization, the filmmaker sets out to unearth her family’s enduring bond with this long-forgotten village hidden deeply in the vast mountain range of Loess Plateau.

Project Team

    Yehui Zhao wearing a black shirt with long dark hair, bangs, and redish lipstick. A body of water and a clouds are in the back ground.

    Yehui Zhao

    Yehui Zhao is a multi-media artist whose work explores migration, decolonization, heritage and regeneration. As an immigrant born in China and living in the US, Yehui thinks of film as her third language. Her work takes root in the feminist legacies of the global south, drawing inspirations from revolutionary history, womanhood and daughtership, and communities’ collective memory. Yehui’s films have been featured at UnionDocs, DOC NYC, Prismatic Ground, Microscope Gallery, Asian American International Film Festival, Spain Moving Images Festival, Timeless Awards, Festival of Animated Objects, and other programs. Yehui has published paintings, prints and writing at Brooklyn Rail, Brooklyn Review and Action, Spectacle. She is a recipient of New York State Council on the Arts grant and York Women in Film and Television Scholarship. Yehui holds an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College and a Master of Science in Social Work from Columbia University. Yehui currently serves as the Art Director of 128 Lit, an award-winning international art and literature magazine.