Shi Jian and Chen Jue, best known for their eight-part epic Tiananmen Square (1991), approach the medium with a certain casual flair while capturing the forlorn hope of Chinese students who were in school between 1988 and 1992. The directors interviewed eight recent graduates about such topics as their attitudes toward love and sex, their philosophical outlooks, and their recollections of the student movement. I Graduated! (64 mins) uses conventions such as tight framing and hand-held camera to qualify its own objectivity and strengthen the impact of personal testimony. What is heard throughout this work is a feeling of estrangement from one's own culture and land. Tinged by a similar sense of displacement, New York-based Huey's Rocking the Great Walls (27 mins) begins as a fan's notes about Chinese pop star Cui Jian, who became notorious for a song protesting the Tiananmen Square massacre. Cui and several band members talk about the frustrations of producing alternative music in China. While interviewing Li Yuan, a former collaborator of Cui's now living in Oregon, Huey faces the fact of his own exile.