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Miao Xiaochun used the painting Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights (circa. 1503) as a basis for his 3D computer animation "Microcosm".

The lowest administrative body in Chinese cities is the neighborhood committee; the staff are retired old ladies, known as the "Little Foot Detective Team." Community security, cleaning, posting slogans, catching thieves, and issuing government documents are all the responsibility of the neighborhood committee. The neighborhood committee for this film is located on the south bank of the Emperor's Garden in Beijing, where all the people living here are now. The film began shooting in 1999, when the Chinese government celebrated the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. The neighborhood committees were busy cleaning up their domains and collecting fees.

Wen Pulin documents the social conditions, customs, and spiritual life of Tibetans in Lhasa.

Snippets is a video about the sweet reluctance to become an adult in a country where everyone seems to be seeking only status symbols and advancement. Yan Junjie and his friends belong to a new Chinese generation, uncompromising and free, standing apart from mainstream Chinese society. Yan Junije attempts to capture the irrecoverable moments of youth, a time that is destined to be lost. But all he finds are snippets, fragments and pieces of a unique period of being, of the lust for life.

Independent Film directed by Zhu Yiye. It follows Yu Xiaohuan, a girl born with a birthmark on her face. She is sensitive and has low self – esteem. One day, she meets Zhang Youxi, a girl who always fights to protect herself from injury and harm. They started a relationship that is hard to define, are they friends or are they lovers?

Trespassing World Cities records how I struggled away from the tourist video style to seek for an impersonal form to pose my response to a world of big cities whose individual distinctive is increasingly blurred. This is a travel journal in the literal sense of the term. The video records my walking through a dozen of major cities around the world, repeating routes and activities, between 1999 and 2005. The mythology of the multiple colors of diverse world cultures shatters. I found myself doing the same things, repeating places I have visited, and inside my mind is often a totally different world irrelevant to the places I visit. Globalization is a popular catch word, the token of economism. Personally speaking, it is a form of irony.

Door Game is a narrative game playing with the found footage of a number of family ethics melodramas from HK Cantonese cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. By re-assembling loose fragments into some kind of coherent structures, I reveal the hidden logic of the genre, exposing the repetitive elements. Through story-creation, my critique of the gender-biased, formulaic quality inherent to Cantonese melodramas evolves. I want to expose the arbitrariness of pathos and ethos in the Cantonese melodramatic tradition, especially to point out how narrative logic turns open options into moral necessity, and how a particular form of morality is turned into absolute truth via plotting… - http://www.lindalai-floatingsite.com/content/video/data/published/doorgame/index.html

The video is a narrative game reconstructing Lai's own video diaries (1990-2003) and found footage. It plays with the thin line between remembering and fabricating, recording and staging, documentary and story... It shows 13 women's stories as a network of acquaintances, each in an isolated moment of her life. Questions on the practice of auto-ethnography are raised via "the politics of the everyday."

Extras is a 2001 fly-on-the-wall Chinese documentary film by director Zhu Chuanming. The documentary has been said to be tinged with social criticisms in its observations of the lives and dreams of China's poorly paid film extras.

Yan Yu follows his groundbreaking documentary Before the Flood with this profile of the residents of Gongtan, a 1700-year-old village soon to be demolished by a hydroelectric dam project.

The first entry in the popular Chinese Flash animated action series.

ShaSha, a nomadic actress from Chengdu, performs in Guiyang nightclubs while sharing a cramped room with fellow artists. Independent since her teens, she thrives in nocturnal routines—stage gigs, meals, sleep, occasional mahjong. Reuniting with model Butterfly sparks fleeting joy until misunderstandings rupture their bond. Yet ShaSha persists, embodying both "She" and "He" onstage and off.

A sensitive and little self-closed collage student Chen, majored in acting and per­formance, is now under graduation. Facing the society he begins to feel helpless. See­ing changes of his first love Dandan, be­ing fooled by a wealthy woman Sister Lin, tolerating the shame of being abandoned, suffering being forced to perform traves­tied show and the following complex, he felt completely lost. He began to doubt about his identification, to doubt about the meaning of existence. At last, he denied his sexuality. After every­thing seems to be solved, Chen left a dairy-styled story ‘Carmen’and finished his life and destiny.

The film chronicles Angel's over-a-year journey striving in Shanghai from another city, during which she navigates three romantic relationships.

Little Tree and Summer become close friends because of the Similar life experience and the Self-searching. But day after day, Little Tree can not bear the intimacy any longer. Her leaving made Summer extremely depressed. Summer begins to act as Little Tree and try to experience and fulfill her love. The reality mingles with illusion, as if Little Tree had never left.

Stalin is recognized by both East and West as a controversial, far-reaching, and extremely complex and contradictory historical giant. Later generations have mixed reviews about him, but no one can deny his extreme importance in human history in the twentieth century. This program will introduce the truth about Stalin’s death.

Chen Xiaomei is an ordinary peasant girl, 17 years old, from Jiale Township, Jiangjin, Chongqing. Unlike other peasant girls, she was abandoned by her mother right after she was born. Xiaomei's adoptive parents are authentic farmers, picked up Xiaomei, they are old, the child died at an early age. According to their words pick up Chen Xiaomei is in order to "old after the tea water have someone ......". Xiao Mei's foster parents did not study, the family lack of labor, the economy has been very difficult. When Xiao Mei was in the third grade of elementary school, her adoptive father became seriously ill, and the family's economy became even more problematic, with no money to pay tuition, Xiao Mei became an out-of-school child. The year was 1994.

The film documents a group of underground conceptual artists and performance artists active in the folk art scene of Chengdu, China. It captures their process of engaging in underground art creation and organizing underground art exhibitions during the summer of 1999, the final summer of the 20th century. The summer of 1999 was a tumultuous period in Chinese politics. It marked the tenth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989, the outbreak of the "Falun Gong incident," and the moment when Taiwan's leader, Lee Teng-hui, made the "two-state theory" declaration, almost leading to a war between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. These underground artists used their creations to reflect their understanding and perspectives on Chinese history and contemporary society. However, their actions were constantly under official surveillance.

Someday，a person buried his television into the earth。But，he never thought that the television made reprisals to him.

For years, urban people have seen the mountain country as a pure wonderland. When they get bored with the city, they visit the mountains and enjoy the hospitality of the ethnic minorities there. The director and cameraman go to the mountains with the typical expectations of urban people — that the local ethnic minority people are supposed to prepare meals for them, and that local labor should be cheap. Behind “Foggy Valley” lie the stories of Chinese country villages which are undergoing transformation.

Inspired by automatic painting machines and looking for a way to replicate the effect in a digital space, Mengbo discovered that within the code for the video game Quake III Arena there existed a parameter called r_drawworld. After changing the parameter from it's default of 0 to 1, he found it was possible to capture a sequence of animation in one frame, which he used to create a painting machine from entirely within in the game's engine. His live painting efforts using this technique are showcased and set to a Hawaiian music soundtrack.

Short film by Lu Chunsheng.

Short film by Lu Chunsheng.