He is one of the best Chinese artists

国际动画艺术展 IAE 1周

Independent Film “21G” by Sun Xun had spent 4 yours in production, it is a stop-motion greatpiece made of uncountable Pastel and Charcoal paintings.

21G is the first Chinese Animation short film selected for Venice International Film Festival. It is been screen in the first International Animation Exhibition. Together with the world master Mr. Nick Park's two films A Grand Day Out and Creature Comforts, as well as the first Chinese wood animation made by Zhao Ye and Huang Yang.

彩色 Color Film

影像时长：27 分 

Film Length: 27 min 

导演/编剧：孙逊

Director/ Script Writer: Sun Xun

制  片 人：Lorenz Helbling

Producer: Lorenz Helbling

导 演 助 理: 邓晶

Assistant Director：Deng Jing

动    画：杨泽,汤柏华,赵锦儿,李蓉,崔莹, 李国华, 陈晨, 陈蕾, 王振波, 李天耀, 俞寅,马玉,王刚,周超,韩令,周磊, 方安国, 徐翀, 邓晶, 孙逊

Animation: Yang Ze, Tang Bohua, Zhao Jiner,  Li Rong,  Cui Ying,  Li Guohua, Chen Chen, Chen Lei,Wang Zhenbo, Li Tianyao, Yu Yin, Ma Yu, Wang Gang, Zhou Chao, Han Ling, Zhou Lei, Fang Anguo, Xu Chong, Deng Jing, Sun Xun

演   奏：北京亚洲爱乐乐团

Orchestration: BEIJING Asian Philharmonic Orchestra

故事简介 Brief Introduction

People keep questioning the history, however, when history is put away from an actual second, a minute, an hour, a day, a year, a century, a 100% actual specific instead of time, the answer we get is never more true or more exciting than questioning. People’s understanding of the world is always changing in vain…We, all of us, fall into a trance and wander around; we feel embarrassed to have no fixed abode, but we can do nothing about it. Each of us is a vagabond, wandering around the edge of the world.

21g

History has abandoned time, and we have lost our souls…

Magician

This world has no specific time, we live in vanity. This is a confusing world. There’s no law, no rule, and the lie dominates everything. There’s lying and being lied to only.

I once was a great fortune teller.

Today, I am a magician, wearing a black high top hat and tuxedo, a professional liar! I make a living by deceiving. People are willing to buy lies from me! Lies here are like mental drugs. When an actual promise is broken once and again, lies can always make it up and turn everything to be confusing yet magnificent. People are obsessed with beautiful illusions…Smiling…

Telling a lie is morally condemned everywhere, but a magician is the only exception. A lie is the only system, an effective one, because the truth has never existed. No one knows what the truth is, and what standard is it to distinguish the truth? When people feel lost, they mortgage their souls, and pin their hopes on us. In return, we give lies, as they look much more beautiful than the truth…

Yes, magicians are the authority! A lie is the truth! And it’s cheap!

The truth is bitter, but the essence of lies can easily make everything great and exalted. We have boundless power, we dominate the world, and we manipulate the universe! Domination! Kidnapped souls! Magicians are the most revolutionary! Magicians are the most hysterical! Magicians are the ruling class! Everything, including properties and laws of any substance can be changed and must be changed!

Lies are spreading all over the world…it becomes habitual to believe in or reject to doubt.

Border

A specious world, empty eyes, without boundary…

At the end — cliff and crag, national theatrism!

A group of ‘numbers’ are displayed in front of a lying machine in order, expression and action seems to be absolutely sincere, touching, and inebriating. However, this machine crazily releases those cold lights; varies with motor tones which can erase people’s memories. The illusion of light is trembling at the end of the world, and the happiness is oblivious, everything makes people addicted.

Behind the illusion, it is colorful and gorgeous light, it is rolling, gentlest, and misted.

Smooth walking stick, stifling high top hat, noblest figure, gorgeous cravat, celebration or disaster, everything seems to be natural. A magician’s festivity!

This is an empty theatre, with no one.

A telephone, a microscope, a globe, and biology…A leak of our huge system, a parallel order, archeology, anatomy, and violin, are all stage properties in a magician’s ‘tool box’…

Moreover…

A blocky art gallery, a mended monument, a boring museum, a happy square, a theatre with scarlet curtain hanging, a church with a historical holy cross…we mock them, even a jail is better than these useless buildings.

Circle

History is a circle, irregular but relatively standard round. It is full of regrets, and pi is not a true formula anymore; any revolution is a lame compass, keeps turning ungratefully, and ends up with nothing. 

导演阐述 Director‘s Statement

21g is a movie discussing about self-existence. We always question life, achieve value or meaning of life, keep looking for different referencing system to define self-existence; however, the world may not be like what we cognize, it could be a complicated mixture of multivariate and multiple systems which coexist and parallel. When we are trying to care, ultimately, we will realize that we are at the most marginal place of the world; we stand on the cliff, and we are always embarrassed. We are on the way to find the truth, we can feel its existence, but can never get close to it. The world is round; our life is like pi; but our continuous approaches turn to be endless cycles. 

动画连续镜头 Animated Footages

作者简介 About the Artist

Sun Xun

Sun Xun was born in 1980 in Fuxin in Liaoning province, China. He graduated in 2005 from the Print-making Department of the China Academy of Art. In 2006 he established π Animation Studio. He currently lives and works in Beijing. As a representative artist in the Chinese new media art, Sun Xun established π Animation Studio in 2006 after graduating from China Academy of Art, and soon received recognition from exhibitions and awards both domestic and abroad. His animation works have been nominated by both Berlin International Film Festival and Venice Film festival. Sun Xun’s personal visual language consist of metaphoric imagery, dark and intense hand drawing, and dreamy narrative. In recent years, Sun Xun uses New Media Art as a point of origin to explore more possibilities within the expansive realm of visual art: he explores narrative methods using diverse mediums such as newspaper, book, woodcut print, Chinese ink, pigment powder, probe into non-linear expressions of time and space, and inquire into both realistic and fantastical representations based on his own understanding of society and sociological theories.    

Selected Works include: Protestant(2017), Tears of Chiwen(2017), Time Spy(2016), Mythological Time(2016), The Time Vivarium(2014), What Happen in Past Dragon Year (2014), Magician Party and Dead Crow(2013), Some Actions Which Haven't Been Defined Yet in the Revolution(2011), Clown's Revolution(2010), Beyond-ism(2010), 21 Ke(2010), People's Republic of Zoo(2009), New China(2008), Coal Spell(2008), Requiem(2007), Heroes No Longer(2007), Lie(2006), Mythos(2006), Lie of Magician(2005), A war about Chinese words(2005).

The works of Sun Xun are mainly drawing and/or short animation. Sun Xun also exhibits his individual cell drawings and other mixed media works, often times alongside his films. Reality and fantasy, time and history, both are continuously seen in Sun Xun's work. Works such as "21 KE", "Magician's Lie" and "Requiem" feature a key protagonist; a magician dressed in a black suit and a high top hat. The magician has been in search of another world, probably a utopia. Over the course of this character's expedition, the sequences are dreamlike and apocalyptic. Sun's works explore themes of societal development and revolution, referencing such theorists as Marx, Adorno, and Horkheimer.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Sun Xun:Time Spy, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Florida, U.S.A（2019）; Frontier, SUN Xun-Phase I, Shanghai Museum of Glass, Shanghai(2018);

SUN XUN, Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia(2018); SUN Xun: Time Spy, Saint Louis Art Museum, U.S.A (2018); Rosa's Wound, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Taipei (2017); Reconstruction of the Universe, 2016 Audemars Piguet Art Commission, Art Basel in Miami Beach, USA(2016); The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative at the Guggenheim, Tales of Our Time, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, U.S.A.(2016);  Prediction Laboratory, Yuz Museum, Shanghai (2016); 2015 Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan (2015); China 8, Contemporary Art from China at the Rhine and Ruhr, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany(2015);Yesterday Is Tomorrow, Hayward Gallery, London, U.K.(2014); Unscrolled, Reframing Tradition in Chinese Contemporary Art, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada(2014); Ink Art: Past as Present in Contemporary China, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, U.S.A.(2013) etc.

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The Golden Crane Award is called for entry from 2020.06.06.-2020.07.25

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