A sweet cicada learns that being yourself is the most beautiful song of all.
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A sweet cicada learns that being yourself is the most beautiful song of all.
Projection mapping video for Pukkelpop festival.
he cut-out patterns are from my father’s book Book cover collection in the West, which was published in 1988, when China’s leaders launched their great reform and opening up to embrace the world. Many leading concepts of book cover design were introduced in the book and this book had an eye-opening influence on the younger generation of Chinese designers since then.
Wacky relatives give way to mounting tensions with broken dolls, boiling stew and a bang.
A lonely walk home is intertwined with an underwater fantasy world. The combination between reality and fantasy is portrayed in a love letter addressed to an imaginary “perfect” man.
A day in the park” we are introduced to a monologue by a grandfather who explains to his grandkid how things used to be, or maybe; how they are now.
A music video.
Learning to be at peace with eventualities and things you know you can’t ever know.
Some things can only be understood with maturity. New light is shed on childhood cultural misunderstandings when a Chinese mother and her British born daughter speak as adults for the first time.
Jack happens upon something truly wonderful but is too caught up within the confines of his mundane life to see it for what it is.
A scientist sets out to discover the reproduction methods within the Plantae Kingdom.
This work is based on aerial attacks that I experienced in my early childhood. The more time passes, the more vividly this memory comes back, and always gives a strong stimulus and an inexplicable disquiet to my creations.
A woman struggles with her grey hound, her partner struggles to understand.
An anxious young girl makes her way through Brixton market. Memory and fantasy slowly weave themselves into the chaotic street scene, engulfing her into a sinister world of talking fish, weeping sunflowers and a suspiciously haunting grin.
Puppet making made to make music.
Smile’ is an experimental animation about how the pressures and expectations girls face from a very young age can cause a damaging effect to their mental wellbeing and self-value.
Roommates is the chronicle of four city dwellers pushed to the breaking point. On a day hot enough to liquidise an orange twinsicle, the inhabitants of apartment 6B bash their heads on the kitchen table and tie their necks in knots, driven psychotic by the heat.
Over the years French collector Thomas Sauvin built an archive of more than half a million 35mm negatives, depicting the capital and the life of her inhabitants over the last thirty years. From 2011 to 2012 Lei Lei selected over 3000 photos to create the animation, a epic portrait of anonymous humanity.
A girl is stuck in a loop of opressive hair-combing. Her rage is growing until it finally breaks through and she escapes her passivity. But whereto? One breakout leads to another and she changes into different stages of herself. Will she reach her freedom? Drawn animation meets claymation meets live action.
A film about smartphone addiction. It shows different dreary tableaus from everyday life.