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Hand-colored
Lei Lei
Release year: 2015
Run time: 16:01
Film type: animation
Synopsis
In 2013, we collected number of black-and-white photos from Chinese flea markets and imagined that all of them belonged to one fictional Chinese person.
Through rendering, collage, and a cyclical process of hand coloring, scanning, and printing, we created connections among the photos.
We spent two years repeating this process. These 1168 hand-colored photos invoke the passage of time, injecting life into the imaginary protagonist as he ventures through time and space.
Director biography
Lei Lei was born in 1985 in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province. He is an experimental animation artist with his hands on video arts, painting, installation, music and VJ performance also. In 2009 He got a master's degree in animation from Tsinghua University. In 2010, his film This is LOVE was shown at Ottawa International Animation Festival and awarded The 2010 Best Narrative Short. In 2013 his film Recycled was the Winner Grand Prix shorts - non-narrative at Holland International Animation Film Festival. In 2014 he is the Jury member of Zagreb / Holland International Animation Film Festival. He was the winner of 2014 asian cultural council grant. In 2017 he worked in CalArts Experimental Animation program as part of the Faculty. In 2018 he was invited by New Academy Member for the Short Films and Feature Animation branch. In 2019 his first feature film Breathless Animals has been selected by Berlinale Forum.
