54boy
a story about a Chinese High school student's one day.
Winners Programme: Haiyang Wang’s Choice
65 minutes
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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
Delicate Harmony
delicate harmony is inspired by the Luciano Pavarotti’s performance.
Dumb
The video shooting use common media materials(newspapers), Through freeze-frame animation to show the formation and demise of print media, The contents of the selected newspapers were typical events,it Seems inability in the long course of time, it will be forgotten soon or later
Freud, Fish and Butterfly
Associations and transformations in a private world,possibly a psychological adventure
Legend of the Head
Just as “Tsai-wei”, this animation also adapted from Lu Xun’s novel. This time I changed the thenique of woodcut printmaking. I used the Chinese traditional watermak to bring out the image that I was filmed. Every image on the woodblock is one frame belong to this animation. When we stack 10 or moer woodblocks in straight, it looks like one part of an unknown classical literary works which called “the Criticism Excavates of Chi-bi”. As the lead of the animation, Chi-bi suicied for a stranger’s promise. Can you really trust a stranger at the cost of you own life? In my works, that is the question that I try to answer.
One Day in Lift
An ordinary day was beginning as usual, one batch after another people were loaded going up and down by the elevator. You always did not know what kind of person would be met when you took the lift., who might be the lift attendant, the office staff, the common inhabitant, even the killer who pretending into the blind man, the astronaut, and the soul. They keeping their blue matter were getting alone with the strangers for a short time in this big box, and what should be take place among them?
The Throb
Synopsis: The story is about a young man named Flying Teeth, who can not find the reflection of the front of his body in any mirror. What always appears in the mirror is the image of his back as he gazes into it. This deeply disturbs the man to the point that his anxiety becomes thick smog bellowing out of his heart. So, he decides to take a journey in order to find the missing image of his front. During his trip he encounters a man alone by a campfire and as he feels the anxiety grow within his heart he can no longer keep himself from attacking the man and stealing his motorcycle. Afterwards, Flying Teeth rides the bike through a hand-shaped tunnel and later takes a boat through an ocean of diamonds… In the end he tears out his exhausted heart and gives up searching for his missing reflection and realizes the real problem is his own desire.
The Wiggler
In a wet basement, it stage a druma about the process of life. A group of “wigglers” slowly writhe their bodies, show from the cradle to the grave. The director is a sculptor. He arranged the “wigglers”, bags with desiccants, for his installation work. He took photos and then made a cartoon one frame by another. Meanwhile, this cartoon is a part of his installation work.
Tsai-Wei
Ying
The video show the traces changes in the upcoming removal of living space,and The state of Discard objects , They will be replaced by new patterns and objects
