Go through discarded photographs. Exploit your dreams. Try to remember lost films. Rebel from within your art school.
Hello! We’re excited to announce that for this June’s program we’re featuring works by Lei Lei & Ane Hjort Guttu with two films from each artist.
Initially the works by these two artists seem like juxtapositions but when the selected films are put together, the thin threads that connect them become more visible. What do we experience in our everyday while living in an authoritative state? What is tangible and what is untrue?
This screening presents a very rare opportunity to see Guttu’s MANIFESTO (Winner of KNF Award at IFFR 2021), a film that questions the state of art education in Norway from within a fictional art institution, alongside the fresh from New Directors/New Films, Lei Lei’s BREAK NO. 1 & NO. 2 which considers how we consume media when government censorship comes into play.
We invite you to fall into these films with us.
See you on Thursday, 20th of June, 7:30 PM at Coaxial Arts.
THE PROGRAM
RECYCLED
(dir. Lei Lei, Thomas Sauvin | 5 mins | 2013)
The following images were sourced over the years from a recycling zone in the outskirts of Beijing.
This archive of more than half a million 35mm color film negatives is a photographic portrait of the capital and the life of her inhabitants over the last thirty years.
Here, we selected 3000 photos to create the animation you are about to see.
THE LOST DREAMS OF NAOKI HAYAKAWA
(dir. Ane Hjort Guttu, Daisuke Kosugi | 25 min | 2016)
Art director Naoki Hayakawa works 16 hours daily in a creative, neo-totalitarian advertisement company in Tokyo. The working pressure causes a mental condition between sleep and wakefulness where he has strange and wonderful dreams.
BREAK NO.1 & BREAK NO.2
(dir. Lei Lei | 17mins | 2024)
Photographs, snowy mountains, videotapes.
Two stories of love and death.
Episode 1: The Lost Photographs.
Episode 2: The unfound movie videotapes.
MANIFESTO
(dir. Ane Hjort Guttu | 27 min | 2020)
A small art academy is fused into a huge university as one out of many institutes in a prestigious new build. They have to follow all the university’s administrative procedures. But secretly, the students and staff decide to self organize as an independent art school. They create their own courses, programs and leadership, beyond the knowledge of the university.
LEI LEI
1985 Born in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province,
In 2009 He got a master’s degree in animation from Tsinghua University.
In 2010, his film This is LOVE was shown at Ottawa International Animation Festival and awarded The 2010 Best Narrative Short.
In 2013 his film Recycled was the Winner Grand Prix shorts – non-narrative at Holland International Animation Film Festival.
In 2014 he was the winner of Asian cultural council grants.
In 2017 he works at CalArts Experimental Animation program as full time Faculty.
In 2018 he invited for New Academy Member for the Short Films and Feature Animation branch, and his installation Weekend was the winner of Jimei x Arles discovery award.
In 2019 his first feature film Breathless Animals has been selected by Berlinale Forum.
https://www.leilei-studio.com/
ANE HJORT GUTTU
Ane Hjort Guttu (b. 1971) is a Norwegian artist and filmmaker based in Oslo. She works in a variety of media, but has in recent years mainly concentrated on film and video works, ranging from investigative documentary to poetic fiction. Among recurrent themes in her work are the relationship between freedom and power, economy and the public space, social change and limits of action. Guttu is also a writer and curator, and she is a professor at the National Academy of the Arts, Oslo. An anthology of her written works was published in 2018, edited by Rike Frank and published by Sternberg and Torpedo Press. Her most recent project is the full feature film VOICE, released in 2023.
https://www.anehjortguttu.net/