Lei Lei

Issuing time:2021-07-20 12:52

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Artist/Film Director


Professional qualifications


1985 Born in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province,
An experimental animation artist with his hands on video arts, painting, installation, music and VJ
performance also. 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 selected by Annecy festival   and was the Winner Grand Prix shorts - non-narrative at Holland International Animation Film Festival.
In 2014 he is the Jury of Zagreb / Holland International Animation Film Festival. and    he was the winner of 2014 asian cultural council grant.


Prizes & Grants:

2010 Awarded The 2010 Best Narrative Short on Ottawa International Animation Festival
2013 Awarded The Grand Prix shorts - non-narrative on Holland International Animation Film Festival.
2013 Winner of Special Mentions by the jury members on 12th Countryside Animafest
2013 Awarded The Nenarativní animace on the 12th Anifest International animation festival.
2014 Awarded The Honorary Mention on Prix Ars Electronica 2014
2014 Awarded The 2014 asian cultural council grant.
2014 Awarded with the Special Mention of Programme Director (Michal Bobrowski) on 4th StopTrik
IFF in Maribor.
2014 Awarded The Best Experimental at the Festival TOFUZI 2014.
2015 Awarded Best Animated Short Film in Fantasia film festival.
2015 Awarded "Silver Dove" in international competition short at DOK Leipzig 2015.
2016 Awarded Jury Award of Recognition at Transilvania Shorts 2016
2016 Awarded "WTF Award" in10th Flatpack Film Festival 2016
2016 Awarded Best Animation Film in Black Sea Film Festival 2016.
2016 Awarded Jury Award of Recognition in Transilvania Shorts 2016.
2017 Awarded Wouter Barendrecht Award in IFFR Cinemart.

Exhibition

2007 Animation <Border Project> was shown at 2007 Shenzhen & HongKong Bi-city Biennale of
Urbanism \ Architecture, (Shenzhen, China)
2008 Animation <Border Project> was shown at Community of Tastes – The Inaugural Exhibition of
Iberia Center for Contemporary Art, Curators: Zuo Jing, Carol Yinghua Lu, (Beijing, China)
2010 Animation <Story> was shown at <get it louder 2010> Arts Exhibition Curated by Ou Ning,
(Beijing, China)
2011 Animation <The bird> was shown at <The Face of Luxun>, Zhejiang Art Museum, (Hangzhou,
China)
2011 Animation films was shown at <SPECTRUM: Chinese Independent Animation> Chengdu A4
Contemporary Arts Center Curated by Zhang Yaxuan, (Chengdu, China)
2011 Animation films was shown at UNTITLED (group) Pure Speace, Curated by Yang Yong, (Beijing,
China)
2013 Animation film <Recycled> was shown at Foces on talents proiect finalists exhibition 2013,
Today Museum. Curated by Dong Bingfeng (Beijing, China)
2013 Animation film <Recycled> was shown at <Animation is a piece of skin-Case studioes of 11 artists>
Curated by He Jingfang, (Guangzhou, China)
2013 Animation film <Recycled> was shown at 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney
2014 Solo Exhibition <Coming soon> Star Gallery, (Beijing, China)
2014 Animation Installation <Recycled> shown at central museum / 2014 Holland Animation Festival.
2014 Animation < Books on Books> screening at McLaren Wall-to-Wall: Take 2 at FNC 2014, Montreal,
Canada
2015 Solo Exhibition < Books on Books> at asifakeil space, Museum Quartiers. Austrian.
2016 Animation Installation <Hand-colored> central museum/2016 Holland Animation Festival.
2016 Animation Installation < Books on Books> Animamix catalogue. Moca Shanghai, China
2016 The drawing center <open sessions>. New York. The USA
2017 Animation Installation < Books on Books> + <Recycled> shown a Top Museum <Multiple
Future>. Tokyo, Japan.

Film & Festival

2017 <Hand colored no.2>
Anncecy Animation Film Festival 2017, Official Competition. France.
2016 <Books on Books>
Holland Animation Film Festival 2015, Official Competition. The Netherlands.
Zagreb International Animation Festival, Official Competition. Croatia
Anifilm Animated Film Festival International Competition, Czech Republic
ANIMANIMA Festival 2016 International Competition, Republic of Serbia
15th Countryside Animafest Cyprus – Views of the World, Nicosia, Cyprus


Fantoche Animation Film Festival, International Competition, Baden Switzerland.
Prix Ars Electronica '15, Animation competition. Austrian.
58th edition of the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film – DOK Leipzig,
Germany

2014<This is not a time to lie>
Holland Animation Film Festival 2015, Official Competition. The Netherlands.
Anima Festival 2015, Official Competition. Brussels
Krok International Animation Festival, Russia and Ukraine

2013 <Recycled>
Holland International Animation Festival competition program, Holland
ANIFEST International Animation Festival, Czech Republic
Prix Ars Electronica 2014, Linz, Austria
ANNECY International Animation Festival, competition programme, France
50th Chicago International Film Festival. Animated Shorts Program Chicago, the USA.

2013<Big hands oh big hands, Let it be bigger and bigger>
Zagrebe Animafest, Animation goes MSU program, Croatia
56th edition of the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film – DOK Leipzig,
Germany
Stuttgart International Animation Festival, Panorama program, Germany
Ottawa International Animation Festival competition programme,

2010 <This is LOVE>
Ottawa International Animation Festival competition programme,
Zagreb International Animation Festival, Croatia

2011 <My…My…>_
2010 <Hululu Honglonglong Hualala>_
2009 <Magic cube and Pingpong>_
2009 <The universe cotton>_
2008 <Pears or Alien>_


Artist Residencies and Presentations

2009 Speech in TED*Shanghai:<One person's animation studio>
2009 Artist Residencies at the Lijiang Studio, Yunnan, China.
2010 Speech in UCCA Beijing :<Animation is easy>
2011 Workshop in TED*BLCU:<One person's animation studio>
2011 Speech in UCCA Beijing :< One person's animation studio>
2012 Heartstrings talkshow at Holland International animation film fesitlval. Holland
2012 Speech in TED@Shanghai:<One person's animation studio>
2012 Artist workshop at Zhejiang Art Museum, (Hangzhou, China)
2012 Presentation and film screening at Beijing creative's, Beijing, China
2012 Artist Residencies at La Bande Video, Quebec, Canada
2012 Presentation and film screening at cinema d'animation de Quebec, Canada
2013 Presentation and film screening <Recycled >at Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
2013 Presentation and film screening at Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2013 Artist Residencies at Macdowell Colony, The USA
2012 Artist workshop at Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
2013 Presentation and film screening <Recycled >at UCCA, Beijing, China
2014 Presentation and film screening at Royal of arts, London, UK
2013 Artist Residencies at Yaddo, The USA
2014 Winner of ACC Cai Fellowship, NYC, The USA
2014 Artist Residency Program at The Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, China.
2015 Artist Residency Program at Abbaye de Fontevraud,France
2015 Artist Residency Program at VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2015, Austril
2016 Locarno Filmmakers Academy 2016
2016 Artist Residencies at Macdowell Colony, The USA

Music live performances

2011 Musical <whale> Beijing Youth Fringe Festival
2013 <HHHEEEIII> Xihu international music festival
2015 <what’s up with that> Zhejiang Arts Museum
2016 <what’s up with that> MOCA Shanghai


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