Art College 1994
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Art College 1994 by Liu Jian
CHN 2023, Competition
© Nezha Bros. Pictures Company Limited, Beijing Modern Sky Culture Development Co., Ltd
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Art College 1994 by Liu Jian
CHN 2023, Competition
© Nezha Bros. Pictures Company Limited, Beijing Modern Sky Culture Development Co., Ltd
Filmmaker and painter Liu Jian returns to the Berlinale Competition with an animated film that combines stylised modern illustrations with a passion for art and life. Suffused with a dark offbeat humour, his work depicts the hopes and artistic dreams of an entire generation as it passes into adulthood. People, events and styles blend with the urban and winter landscape of a country undergoing rapid change.
Crew
Director | Liu Jian |
Screenplay | Lin Shan, Liu Jian |
Animation | Li Jiajia |
Editing | Liu Jian |
Music | David Wen-Wei Liang, Sun Yunfan, Cui Jian, Alex Liu, Chen Li |
Sound Design | Li Danfeng, Gao Ruifeng |
Sound | Li Danfeng |
Producers | Yang Cheng, Shen Lihui, Gao Shiming |
Executive Producer | Wang Lynne |
World sales
Memento International
Produced by
Nezha Bros. Pictures
Modern Sky Entertainment
China Academy of Art, School of Animation and Game
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Group Picture
The film team at the Photo Call.
Art College 1994 · Competition · Feb 23, 2023
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Ren Ke, Liu Jian
The director and the actor at the Photo Call.
Art College 1994 · Competition · Feb 23, 2023
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Liu Jian
The director at the Press Conference.
Art College 1994 · Competition · Feb 23, 2023
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David Wen-Wei Liang, Shen Lihui, Yang Cheng, Ren Ke, Li Jiajia
The film team at the Press Conference.
Art College 1994 · Competition · Feb 23, 2023
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Liu Jian
The director at the premiere.
Art College 1994 · Competition · Feb 24, 2023
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Liu Jian, Ren Ke, Shen Lihui, Yang Cheng
The film team on the Red Carpet.
Art College 1994 · Competition · Feb 24, 2023
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Ren Ke
Art College 1994 · Competition · Feb 23, 2023
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Liu Jian
Art College 1994 · Competition · Feb 23, 2023
© Jens Koch
Li Jiajia, David Wen-Wei Liang, Yang Cheng, Liu Jian, Ren Ke, Lihui Shen, Li Danfeng
Art College 1994
Competition · Press Conference · Feb 23, 2023
Press Conference at full length
Art College 1994
Competition · Red Carpet · Feb 24, 2023
Liu Jian
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Liu Jian studied Chinese landscape painting and graduated from the Nanjing University of the Arts in 1993. Over the past two decades, his work has drawn on a range of media and aesthetic approaches and has been presented at major exhibitions both in China and abroad. In 1995, he began making works of animation and in 2007 he independently established the Le-joy Animation Studio. His first feature-length animation work, Piercing I, premiered at Holland Animation Film Festival and received numerous prestigious awards at film festivals across Asia and Europe.
Filmography (animated films)
2010 Citong wo (Piercing I) 2017 Hao ji le 2011 Chaos & Order; short film · Face; short film · Look At This Man; short film 2017 Hao ji le (Have a Nice Day) 2022 Art College 1994
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2023