Shengwei Zhou

Shengwei Zhou

Birth : 1991-02-20,

History

Shengwei Zhou, born in 1991, digital artist/cross-border director, graduated from Peking University, currently study Expanded Animation at the School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California. His representative feature animation SHe won the Best Animated Feature Film Nomination at the 21st Shanghai International Film Festival, known as the A category film festival defined by FIAPF. His feature film Art is Dead won the Spirit of Freedom Award at 14th FIRST International Film Festival. He is currently working on an ongoing animation and VR/XR series called Perfect City. His art work SHe, Art is Dead, Let’s Fall In Love, and Perfect City series has been selected to over 100 festivals including Oscar, BAFTA, Canadian Screen Award qualified film festivals and exhibitions all over the world and has been reported by Hollywood Variety magazine.

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Shengwei Zhou

Movies

Perfect City: The Mother
Director, writer, animator, producer, voice actor
First episode of Perfect City animation and digital arts series. Lured by the perfect hallucinogenic liquid, Perfect Spray, a wooden monster mother decides to carve her root baby into a human.
Perfect City: The Mother
Director
First episode of Perfect City animation and digital arts series. Lured by the perfect hallucinogenic liquid, Perfect Spray, a wooden monster mother decides to carve her root baby into a human.
Perfect City: The Mother
Animation
Perfect City: The Mother
Writer
Perfect City: The Mother
Director
Let's Fall in Love
Animation
The film combines animation and mockumentary to get a glimpse of the boring but romantic daily life of a middle-aged man living alone from the perspective of a monitor. I put my emotional feelings and thoughts into this short film as a response of the pandemic. I want to illustrate the individual’s desire for love in this isolate environment.
Let's Fall in Love
Writer
The film combines animation and mockumentary to get a glimpse of the boring but romantic daily life of a middle-aged man living alone from the perspective of a monitor. I put my emotional feelings and thoughts into this short film as a response of the pandemic. I want to illustrate the individual’s desire for love in this isolate environment.
Let's Fall in Love
Director
The film combines animation and mockumentary to get a glimpse of the boring but romantic daily life of a middle-aged man living alone from the perspective of a monitor. I put my emotional feelings and thoughts into this short film as a response of the pandemic. I want to illustrate the individual’s desire for love in this isolate environment.
Art is Dead
Writer
After shooting ‘S He’, ‘I’ fell into the bottleneck of creation. While interviewing some artists about how to break through the bottleneck period, I stumbled upon an artist’s body with a strange posture in his studio. Driven by curiosity and creative desire, ‘I’ began to investigate this dead artist with a camera. What happened next became more and more strange and uncontrollable…
Art is Dead
Director
After shooting ‘S He’, ‘I’ fell into the bottleneck of creation. While interviewing some artists about how to break through the bottleneck period, I stumbled upon an artist’s body with a strange posture in his studio. Driven by curiosity and creative desire, ‘I’ began to investigate this dead artist with a camera. What happened next became more and more strange and uncontrollable…
S He
Sound
In a dystopian world, male shoes dominate and the females—high-heels with spindly vines—are kept strictly for breeding purposes. Under disguise, a female breaks loose and attempts to move beyond her confines. Her attempt alters not only her fate but the very fabric of society.
S He
In a dystopian world, male shoes dominate and the females—high-heels with spindly vines—are kept strictly for breeding purposes. Under disguise, a female breaks loose and attempts to move beyond her confines. Her attempt alters not only her fate but the very fabric of society.
S He
Producer
In a dystopian world, male shoes dominate and the females—high-heels with spindly vines—are kept strictly for breeding purposes. Under disguise, a female breaks loose and attempts to move beyond her confines. Her attempt alters not only her fate but the very fabric of society.
S He
Editor
In a dystopian world, male shoes dominate and the females—high-heels with spindly vines—are kept strictly for breeding purposes. Under disguise, a female breaks loose and attempts to move beyond her confines. Her attempt alters not only her fate but the very fabric of society.
S He
Cinematography
In a dystopian world, male shoes dominate and the females—high-heels with spindly vines—are kept strictly for breeding purposes. Under disguise, a female breaks loose and attempts to move beyond her confines. Her attempt alters not only her fate but the very fabric of society.
S He
Animation
In a dystopian world, male shoes dominate and the females—high-heels with spindly vines—are kept strictly for breeding purposes. Under disguise, a female breaks loose and attempts to move beyond her confines. Her attempt alters not only her fate but the very fabric of society.
S He
Writer
In a dystopian world, male shoes dominate and the females—high-heels with spindly vines—are kept strictly for breeding purposes. Under disguise, a female breaks loose and attempts to move beyond her confines. Her attempt alters not only her fate but the very fabric of society.
S He
Director
In a dystopian world, male shoes dominate and the females—high-heels with spindly vines—are kept strictly for breeding purposes. Under disguise, a female breaks loose and attempts to move beyond her confines. Her attempt alters not only her fate but the very fabric of society.
Forest Dreaming
Director
Four men in a parallel universe encounter one another and then separate. He Sen and Lin Feng hooked up and were sleeping in bed together when they had the same dream. For He Sen it was a sweet dream, but for Lin Feng it was a sad dream about parting ways.