Sun 100

In 1993 on the 100th anniversary of Mao Zedongs birth Wen Pulin mobilized the Sun 100 series of artistic activities staging programs at official institutions featuring avantgarde artists in Maos hometown Shaoshan The film Sun 100 was intended to be a document of that work representing the country and the nation thinking about a specific quandary What is the spiritual heritage thats been left behind by Mao Zedong if there is any at all Wen planned for the film to show at the 1994 Hong Kong Film Festival but withdrew it and has never finished it stating that his own views on Mao have shifted 17 discs worth of footage roughly 28 hours from the unfinished film are included in the Wen Pulin AvantGarde Art Archive held at Cornell University in the US