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
Beyond-ism
Xun Sun
China, 2010
8 min.
Beyond-ism was inspired by the artist in residence at a project in Yokohama, and the work consists of three parts. The first part, which consists of 10 huge ink drawings and frames of animation video, was realized in Yokohame. The second part, the drawings for the animation, was completed in Beijing, and the work was first exhibited at Aichi Triennale 2010 in Japan. The third part, hand-drawn renderings and video, was exhibited at Rock bund Museum in Shanghai. The whole process was combined with site-specific drawings. Sun Xun’s works are usually a series of doubting, impressive short animation films. His works investigate the construction and narration of history. Like most of Sun Xun’s recent animations, Beyond-ism also features a key protagonist - a magician dressed in a black suit and a high top hat. As the only legitimate liar, he coined the most beautiful myth in the world, which is a misty mirage, but turns the whole world upside down. Everything is a romantic wasteland, and in these ruins will there be some long-awaited glory? Or should we divulge these lies or glories by turning themselves upside down?
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