Liu Jian – Art College 1994 #Berlinale2023

February 25, 2023

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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews Liu Jian, director of the film Art College 1994.

It was in 2017 when the Chinese director/animator Liu Jian brought his second film, Have a Nice Day, to competition at the Berlinale. This year, six years later, the director returns with Art College 1994, a long story of the everyday life of some art students in China in 1996. The director expresses his thoughts on art, recalls one of the funniest moments of his time at college and explains why that formative period in each of our lives is so important to him.

Art College 1994: In the 1990s, a group of students on the campus of the Chinese Southern Academy of Arts are pursuing their studies and preparing to face the world. China is opening up to the West and the students’ lives are a tangle of love stories and friendships, artistic research, ideals and ambitions brought about by new influences. Caught between tradition and modernity, they have to decide who they want to become. 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.

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