HAFF has special ties with China. During HAFF 2010, Chinese Sun Xun was the festival’s special guest as artist in residence. His impressive films and the exhibitions at CBKU and the Central Museum attracted a great deal of attention. Since then, he has not sat idle and made no fewer than two new films and put together scores of exhibitions home and abroad. After its world première at the Berlin Film Festival, his latest film Some Actions Which Haven't Been Defined Yet in the Revolution participates in the HAFF competition for shorts, and our Independent China programme includes his other recent film, Beyond-ism. 
His passionate activity seems exemplary of the tempestuous development China is going through, in the field of art in general and animation in particular. The Independent China programme section shows work by the new generation of single-minded Chinese filmmakers and fine artists, who have been working very hard over the last two decades. They are almost exclusively young filmmakers, born after the Cultural Revolution and some even after the demonstrations on Tiananmen Square. Still, many of them turn out to be notably inspired in their consideration of the nation’s cultural history. Another leitmotif in the programme is the freedom of approach, effortlessly varying between different techniques and the eager inquiry into materials. 
The programme was compiled in association with A4, Contemporary Arts Center (Chengdu, China). Various filmmakers will attend the screenings, and it is possible to chat with them afterwards. Apart from the film screenings, this programme section presents installations in the Louis Hartlooper Complex and one on top of the Neude Flat on Vinkenburgstraat: Last Experimental Flying Object by Ye Linghan.
One of the sections was compiled by Haiyang Wang. He won the 2010 Dioraphte Non-Narrative Grand Prix for Freud, Fish and Butterfly and was given carte blanche for this edition to put together a programme of his personal favourites. What drives him and what influenced him as a filmmaker? He selected work by painters, sculptors and installation makers. By the way, the festival also displays art work by Haiyang Wang himself, from Double Fikret, his latest film that has its world première at HAFF in the shorts competition, and there is a meet & greet with the artist.

This program screened as part of HAFF 2012

Showing in this program

A Clockwork Cock

• Xi Chen / Jian Jiang
• China, 2009
• 11 min.

A naughty boy had to stay in a young female teacher's office, receiving her separate and silent education. Finally, he decided to grow up as an obedient good student.

Go Away

• Jian Bao
• China, 2011
• 7 min.

Because of human greed and folly, constant crush and destroy the original beautiful earth, until one day the earth unbearable heavy burden to destroy himself, earth has can't live any more, people began to escape, but where they can escape?
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Magic Cube and Ping-Pong

• Lei Lei
• China, 2009
• 4 min.

Mirror Room

• Xiaohu Zhou
• China, 2010
• 20 min.

One Part of Narrative Film-3

• Linghan Ye
• China, 2009
• 3 min.

Pears or Aliens

• Lei Lei
• China, 2009
• 4 min.

The story is about a grotesque battle fighting for the safety of the Earth. The city where protagonist lives is attacked by unknown intellectual creatures from outer space, particularly in disguise of pears, who also turned his grannies into pear shape creatures. The protagonist strived for peace by bringing love to people. This animation is drawn by red and blue ball pens on girded exercise books, reminiscing

Sakya

• Xiaotao Zhang
• China, 2011
• 15 min.

The Rabbit Street

• Wei Feng
• China, 2007
• 5 min.

This is Love

• Lei Lei
• China, 2010
• 2 min.

One day. I found me naked. Where is my clothes?