Chinese animation art between experiment and tradition at Holland Animation Film Festival

by Leo Bankersen
16 March 201530 March 2022
2 min read
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You haven't seen this before: stop-motion animation with figures made of Chinese porcelain. In the short film Mr Sea, Chinese artist Xue Geng has recreated an ancient legend about an explorer, a prostitute and a snake

brought to life with home-fired ceramics. A glossy, dreamlike depiction of eroticism and violence.

Mr Sea is part of the opening programme that kicks off the Holland Animation Film Festival (18-22 March) in Utrecht on Wednesday.

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Leo Bankersen

Leo Bankersen has been writing about film since Chinatown and Night of the Living Dead. Reviewed as a freelance film journalist for the GPD for a long time. Is now, among other things, one of the regular contributors to De Filmkrant. Likes to break a lance for children's films, documentaries and films from non-Western countries. Other specialities: digital issues and film education.View Author posts

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