Has your childhood returned?, "A dialogue across time and space" between the "lost pearls" of Shanghai Animation Film Studio and contemporary animation art
Dragon Boat Festival holiday, produced by Shanghai Animation Film Studio and HiShorts! The "Super Time and Space Dialogue" co-organized by Xiamen Short Film Week - "HiShorts" x HiShorts! Animation Art Exhibition at Jinchao Lane 8, Hongkou District allows the audience to "return to their childhood".
In Shikumen, Lane 8 of Jinchao, you can see the animation series "Legacy Pearl" of Meiying and HiShorts! Selected animations from the animation unit in the past five years, divided into "originally born from the same roots", "beauty born from fun" and "lived with form and charm" "The four major units of "Continuous Rebirth" are screened, and are accompanied by a large number of animation creation traceability and HiShorts! The exhibition of contemporary animation manuscripts, stop-motion animation puppets, storyboards and other rare and precious exhibitions are supplemented by a number of forums and activities participated by veteran artists of Shangmei Film, HiShorts! young animation directors, mysterious celebrities, artists, etc. Dimension shows the magic of animation "breaking through walls".
Peng Yong, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and Deputy General Manager of Shanghai Meiying, said that Shanghai Meiying has always been on the road of exploration with an open mind and actively carried out cross-border cooperation with artists from all walks of life. As the Shanghai International Film Festival in China is about to kick off, this combination with HiShorts! is also a brand new attempt, hoping to lead citizens and tourists to "feel truth, goodness and beauty, and maintain truth, goodness and beauty" through animation.
As the "birthplace of Shanghai culture, source of advanced culture, and gathering place of cultural celebrities", Hongkou District was once a major film town in Shanghai. Holding art exhibitions in Shanghai-style architectural complexes and integrating business and travel cultural elements into a new model is also an important measure for Hongkou District to achieve new development of the cultural and entertainment industry in the Sichuan North Road area and vigorously promote the implementation of the three-year action plan for "three cultural places". Hongkou District will create more spaces and activities integrating culture, art, and commerce between the "one river and one river", condense the "three cultural places" on specific carriers, and project them into the actual lives of citizens.
Artist Qiu Anxiong's latest experimental art project "Window Project" was unveiled as the opening event of this animation art exhibition, unveiling the prelude of the first phase of the "We Are All Born from the Same Root" unit. The project breaks the inherent creation and exhibition methods, integrating poetry, music, dance, performance, installation, painting, video and other art methods into an interconnected art fluid. Qiu Anxiong said that Shanghai Animation Film Studio carries his childhood memories. It is the animation of Shanghai Animation Film Studio that is both artistic and interesting that brings a high level of aesthetic enjoyment and artistic nourishment to a generation, and is a well-deserved "Chinese School". "Window Project" is the fruit of childhood nourishment, and contains the beautiful original intention of letting art, like animation, walk out of the ivory tower and into the homes of ordinary people.
As the "We Are All Born from the Same Root" unit unfolds at L2 and L3 of Building 1, Jinchao Lane 8, Shanghai Animation Film Studio's "Lost Pearl" animations such as "The Taoist of Laoshan" and "Cao Chong Weighs an Elephant" will be screened one after another along with HiShorts! animation unit "The Thorn Birds" and "Silk Road Traveler - Kumarajiva".
As an imported product, animation was introduced to China in the early 20th century. Generations of Chinese animators have persisted in exploration in their creative practice and gradually built a unique creative system for Chinese animated films. The works of Shanghai Animation Film Studio's "Lost Pearls" animation series and HiShorts! animation unit, with different creative backgrounds and styles, from "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" to "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", from rock paintings to ink paper-cuts, from satirical cartoons to avant-garde experiments, are gathered in the same time and space at the "Trans-Time and Space Dialogue" animation art exhibition, showing the exploration footprints of generations of animators.
"Dialogue in Time and Space" - Shangmei Film's "Legacy Pearl" Co-organized by Short Film Week, it will present new creative ideas in Chinese animation during the nearly three-month exhibition period.
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