A Bright Summer Diary
A postcard from his childhood triggers the Chinese artist Lei Lei to delve into his family’s past. With film fragments, found photos and propaganda images, he turns cinema into a memory machine. While A Bright Summer Diary jumps in and out of the past, Lei Lei reflects on the nostalgic coloring of what (n)once was.
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“The soundtrack, minor family narratives and crackling warm pathos loops—more Basinski than Lopatin—fills out the flat space of Lei’s images with a heavier awareness of time passing, if not nostalgia. Taken together, it’s an ambient cinema, a surprisingly deep mood.” – Phil Coldiron, Cinema Scope
Breathless Animals
As Breathless Animals re-enacts China’s modernization before our eyes, a woman reminisces about her 1970s childhood. One day the first breathless animal appears to her, a white horse…
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“This is not just some static piece of conceptual art to gawk at with faux wonder: every photo, every second of slowed down footage, every piece of cut-out animation has a story to tell within the grander narrative.” – James Cansdale-Cook, Asian Movie Pulse