ANIMATED SHORTS PROGRAM – CHINA NOW

ANIMATED SHORTS PROGRAM

UltraStar Mission Valley
Sunday, May 1, 2016 3:00 pm

Description

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

Bai Bin / 2013 / 11 mins
A Tibetan fable, in vivid colors, of an indomitable tree, assailed yet triumphant.
DOUBLE ACT

Ding Shiwei / 2013 / 5 mins
Black-and-white industrial surreal: bodies float between familiar bureaucratic monuments above the earth, while sunflowers lie beneath the earth.
FAMILY REUNION

Chen Li-hua / 2012 / 18 mins
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

Bai Bin / 2012 / 26 mins
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

Qiu Anxiong / 2012 / 30 mins
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

Zhong Su / 2014 / 5 mins
A gorgeous 3D animation unscrolling through Chinese history, from grey urban collapse to ultra-colored consumer dystopia.