Breathless Animals
Art of the Real 2019
April 18 - 28, 2019
In Chinese filmmaker Lei Lei’s first feature, anonymous images and found materials skip and stutter through analog animation techniques, while on the soundtrack the director’s mother speaks of her youth in Maoist China and of violent dreams of animals fueled by late nights in front of the television.
Q&A with Lei Lei
In Chinese filmmaker Lei Lei’s first feature, the director’s mother speaks in voiceover about her parents, the trials and tribulations of her youth, Maoist China, and violent dreams of animals fueled by late nights in front of the television. Accompanying these recollections, which drift across the soundtrack, are anonymous still and moving images, found footage, and repurposed photographs, occasionally made to skip, stutter, or slow through analog animation techniques. As memories weave through material evidence of the past, ruptures emerge in the film’s construction, calling upon the mind’s eye to fill in the gaps of history.
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