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What Happened in Past Dragon Year 龙年往事
The UCLA International Institute presents the animated film, "What Happened in Past Dragon Year," as part of their 2014 China Onscreen Biennial: Spectrum.
Where
Spectrum
International Premiere 2014
Director/Screenwriter: Sun Xun
Producer: Edouard Malingue
Animator: Wang Sipu, Yu Yanping, Chen Xingye, Sun Xun
Editor: Xu Chong, Chen Xingye
Sound: Sun Xun, Cheng Xingye
HDCAM, color, in Mandarin w/ English s/t, 10 min.
This dazzling animated work, inspired by Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Rene Magritte’s painting The Spontaneous Generation, expands upon Sun Xun’s commissioned art piece commemorating 2012, the most recent Chinese lunar year of the dragon. – Shannon Kelly
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Stratum 1: The Visitors
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