Lei Lei Trailers
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Lei Lei (1985, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province) is a Chinese animator, filmmaker and artist. He graduated from Tsinghua University in 2009, with a master's degree in Animation. Since then, he has worked as an independent filmmaker and experimental animation artist. His animated short This Is Love (2010) was awarded Best Narrative Short at Ottawa International Animation Festival. From then on, many of his short films have received awards at festivals worldwide and he has been selected for many artist residencies. Since 2017, Lei has spent most of his time in Los Angeles, where he is a full-time faculty member at the department of Experimental Animation, CalArts. Ningdu is selected for the IFFR Tiger Award Competition 2022.
Most Popular Lei Lei Trailers
Total trailers found: 28
11 September 2024
As Tang Sanzang and his disciples arrive at Lion Camel Ridge, they encounter villagers captured by demons.
18 March 2014
The young Chinese animator also known as “Ray” Lei crafts a hallucinatory short that follows a doe-eyed protagonist on a quest through an imagined world.
01 January 2008
A happy planet of pear people is invaded by some mean reverse pear head aliens. A film about peace, tolerance and forgiveness.
01 January 2015
During a mahjong game, a bad situation occurs. Everyone waits for the last player to show up. The three have no choice but to wait and sit there silently in tears.
12 June 2017
In 2013, Lei Lei and Thomas Sauvin collected numbers of black-and-white photos from Chinese flea markets and imagined that all of them belonged to one fictional Chinese person.
23 November 2018
With Weekend, the artist and Beijing / LA resident Lei Lei not only displays artistic nostalgia, but also the constant quest for certainty regarding history, family and personal identity.
25 September 2014
With animation from Lei Lei and beatboxing from Eloi Dequeker, this is the story of "guy with a hat" as he heads to the cinema in the supercar.
11 October 2018
Dave draws the first page of his comic book and excitedly shows it to his friend Lei Lei. Lei Lei is not impressed.
19 September 2013
This story takes place in a city, in which all of the citizens have very big hands. One child, however, is special.
01 January 2009
The story is a narration of a pseudoscience on cotton plantation. The protagonist waters the cotton with music and love, resulting in the greatest harvest that sky is the only way for the cotton to go.
22 September 2016
During production, I have utilized images from a second-hand book. This book was used to train Chinese youths on how to make quick sketches of human figures in the 80s.
01 January 2010
After a long flight, a young man is greeted lovingly by his girlfriend. As they embrace, the man spots a hole in the woman’s sock.
25 January 2020
A boy and his mother sit in a cardboard car in front of painted landscape. This postcard from his childhood is what triggers Chinese artist Lei Lei to go on a journey down the rabbit hole of memory.
10 February 2019
"What did you dream about and what was your daily life as a teenager?” An older woman recalls her youthful memories in China during the 1970’s while unfolding in front of our eyes the recreation of the modern times from the past.
05 May 2010
One day, a heavy rain floods a small, peaceful village. A brave child swims to the universe to save the day.
21 April 2009
Love – and ping pong - can be liberating in a world of sameness.
10 November 2022
“Our family is special”, says filmmaker Lei Lei’s father Lei Jiaqi. On the audio track of this inventive, poignant essay film he starts to talk about the struggles of his family, amid China’s troubled times of the 1960s.
29 September 2022
What happened to Lupita after the frustrated attempt to get into the dance battle? And what's up with Huo now, the dancer that Lupita idolized?
10 June 2013
An exhaustively created moving image mural of Beijing and her inhabitants, painstakingly extracted from an archive of half a million 35mm negatives.
16 February 2023
Searching for the house his father grew up in, director Lei Lei charts the story of a childhood in rural China using a mix of found footage, collage, and animation techniques: a moving account of all the things the father thinks he was not good at.
04 October 2021
Short animation about a running girl by Lei Lei
25 January 2024
After A Bright Summer Diary (IFFR 2020) and Ningdu (IFFR 2022) we once again welcome Lei Lei to Rotterdam with this compelling tribute to bygone images and memories.
01 January 2011
A guy suddenly finds himself naked. Where are his clothes!?
01 January 2016
The cutout patterns are from my father's book, Book Cover Collection in the West, which was published in 1988, when Chinese leaders launched their great "Reform" and "Opening Up" to embrace the world.
05 October 2024
The fragile materialities of Yangzhou wood engraving and analog film converge in Lei Lei’s fractal portrait of labor and craft.
