Through styles as diverse as ink wash painting, Tibetan thangka, and 3D computer graphics, these six short animations breathtakingly imagine fable-like pasts and dystopian, surreal futures.
In this Program:
AN APPLE TREE (苹果树)
A Tibetan fable, in vivid colors, of an indomitable tree, assailed yet triumphant.
DOUBLE ACT (双簧)
Black-and-white industrial surreal: bodies float between familiar bureaucratic monuments above the earth, while sunflowers lie beneath the earth.
FAMILY REUNION (馬拉自在)
A-mei, a Taiwanese aboriginal woman working in a factory, is called home for the Harvest Festival, but her boss refuses. In Chen?s imaginative tale, illustrated with cut out and line drawn animation, a daughter?s powerful dreaming saves all.
THE HUNTER AND THE SKELETON (猎人与骷髅怪)
A spectacular animated version, flash plus thangka, of an Eastern Tibetan folk tale: when a hunter meets a fearsome skeleton monster, are they friends, or enemies?
THE NEW BOOK OF MOUNTAINS AND SEAS PART 2 (新山海经2)
Animating classic-styled ink and pen drawings, and filling them with quasi-nightmarish animal-machine forms, Qiu suggests a world under ecological collapse, where genetically tampered animal forms expire on earth and colonize the stars.
PERFECT CONJUGAL BLISS (花好月圆)
A gorgeous 3D animation unscrolling through Chinese history, from grey urban collapse to ultra-colored consumer dystopia.
Sunday, May 1 - 3:00 PM
For more information, please visit: www.festival.sdaff.org
In this Program:
AN APPLE TREE (苹果树)
A Tibetan fable, in vivid colors, of an indomitable tree, assailed yet triumphant.
DOUBLE ACT (双簧)
Black-and-white industrial surreal: bodies float between familiar bureaucratic monuments above the earth, while sunflowers lie beneath the earth.
FAMILY REUNION (馬拉自在)
A-mei, a Taiwanese aboriginal woman working in a factory, is called home for the Harvest Festival, but her boss refuses. In Chen?s imaginative tale, illustrated with cut out and line drawn animation, a daughter?s powerful dreaming saves all.
THE HUNTER AND THE SKELETON (猎人与骷髅怪)
A spectacular animated version, flash plus thangka, of an Eastern Tibetan folk tale: when a hunter meets a fearsome skeleton monster, are they friends, or enemies?
THE NEW BOOK OF MOUNTAINS AND SEAS PART 2 (新山海经2)
Animating classic-styled ink and pen drawings, and filling them with quasi-nightmarish animal-machine forms, Qiu suggests a world under ecological collapse, where genetically tampered animal forms expire on earth and colonize the stars.
PERFECT CONJUGAL BLISS (花好月圆)
A gorgeous 3D animation unscrolling through Chinese history, from grey urban collapse to ultra-colored consumer dystopia.
Sunday, May 1 - 3:00 PM
For more information, please visit: www.festival.sdaff.org
