Animal Year
Zhong Su
Animal-human hybrids drag wheelbarrows filled with collected finds through post-apocalyptic urban ruins.
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Animal Year
Animated Film
China
2017
9 minutes
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Animal-human hybrids drag wheelbarrows filled with collected finds through post-apocalyptic urban ruins, while giggling children in lightning-fast airships dart through the steel-blue, flower-encrusted sky, dropping rockets … This young Chinese director draws an idiosyncratic, haunting and disturbing portrait of a dystopian future of humanity.
Duscha Kistler
Duscha Kistler
Hu Lulu Hong Longlong Hua Lala
Lei Lei
The little boy Hong Longlong saves a city from flooding by jumping through a toilet bowl into space and putting on the rain cloud like a hat.
Hu Lulu Hong Longlong Hua Lala
Animated Film
China
2010
6 minutes
subtitles:
_without dialogue / subtitles
The Chinese film artist Lei Lei’s graphic and colourful language is unmistakeable and he is a master of light, almost “naive” animation. Using these tools, he tackles even natural disasters with ease: the little boy Hong Longlong saves a city from flooding by jumping through a toilet bowl into space and putting on the rain cloud like a hat.
Duscha Kistler
Duscha Kistler
Monkey
Jie Shen
A scene is dissected into its component parts, a plot dissolved into snapshots. A trap, a blow from behind. The crash, the fall …
Monkey
Animated Film
China
2015
5 minutes
subtitles:
_without dialogue / subtitles
A scene is dissected into its component parts, a plot dissolved into snapshots. A trap, a blow from behind. The crash, the fall … This succinct fragmentary film experiment achieves a high degree of emotional intensity, shocking in its archaic brutality and fascinating in its extraordinary aesthetics.
Duscha Kistler
Duscha Kistler
