International Fugas Competition

Dongwu Fangyan

Breathless Animals
Lei Lei
United States of America
68
Spanish Premiere
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Dongwu Fangyan
Synopsis

Through a conversation with a woman, Chinese artist Lei Lei recounts the family history. An immense collage of unique and unusual material allows him to reconstruct the real and dreamlike memories of her experiences in an oppressive society. The art of experimenting in the re-montage as a sensory, emotional and political shock. (MMF)

Festivals

- Berlinale - Forum (2019)
- Thessaloniki Documentary Festival (2019)

Biography of the director

Lei LEI
Lei Lei

His works include the short animation films This is Love (Best Narrative Short Award at Ottawa International Film Festival in 2010), Recycled (selected at Annecy Film Festival, Grand Prix of Shorts & Non-Narrative Films at Holland International Animation Film Festival), and many others selected to numerous international festivals and exhibited in museums.

In 2014 he served on the Jury of Zagreb / Holland International Animation Film Festival and won the Asian Cultural Council Grant. He has also been selected to attend many artist residencies and fellowship programs, including the ACC Cai Fellowship in New York (2014), Artist Residency Program at Abbaye de Fonteyraud, France (2015), Locarno Summer Academy (2016) and Artist Residency at Macdowell Colony, U.S.A (2016). Since 2017, he has been a full time Faculty Member of the Experimental Animation of CalArts Film & Video School.

He has had solo exhibitions in Beijing and Austria and has also been in exhibitions all over the world.

Images gallery
Finished

Sessions

May

Tuesday 14
19:00 h
CINETECA - Sala Borau
Friday 17
19:00 h
CINETECA - Sala Borau
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Credits

Language
Mandarin - Subtitles in spanish and english
Director
Lei Lei
Screenplay
Lei Lei
Cinematography
Lei Lei
Editing
Lei Lei
Sound
Lei Lei
Production
Lei Lei
Contact
Ya LI [Asian Shadows]
China

+86 13602721891
lya@chineseshadows.com
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Dongwu Fangyan