THE LIGHTHOUSE (2018)

A soon-to-be first-time voter, the filmmaker’s thought-provoking journey into the Rust Belt and South captures four Asian American voters’ ardent first time grassroots political participation ignited by the 2016 rise of “Chinese Americans for Trump.” FIRST VOTE is a character driven cinema verité style film chronicling the democratic participation of four Asian American voters from 2016 through the 2018 midterm elections.

The movie follows two unfortunate secret lovers who are constantly looking for a solution to their situation. Both of them are always arguing over their relationship. One day they went to a trip out of the city, into the outskirt. They hope they can solve their problems or at least escape them temporarily. They don’t have a solution, and they don’t understand why they are together. One thing that keeps them together is their love and care for each other. This is the second part of James Lee’s Love Trilogy which takes another look at unfaithfulness or rather faithlessness.

중국 지역 일본군 ‘위안부’ 피해자 20만 명 2014년 촬영 당시 생존자 단 22명 그 22명의 할머니들이 들려주는 마지막 이야기 그리고… 2018년 8월 현재 중국에 남아 있는 ‘위안부’ 피해자는 단 6명 할머니들 대부분은 90세를 넘겨 삶의 끝자락에 서 있다.

Xuan is a young man working in the film industry in Beijing. To make a documentary film that he wants to present at international festivals, he decides to take advantage of the holidays of the Day of the Dead to return to Chengdu, his hometown located at the other end of the country. The documentary he is about to make is about his relationship with his own lover. He leaves for Chengdu, accompanied by another man, Bo, the cameraman of the film. The two men take the train to Chengdu where Hong, Xuan's lover, is waiting for them. From the first moment of their arrival at the station, Xuan and Bo begin to turn with their camera, Xuan having already explained to Bo what he wanted to film and that Hong would always be "playing", Bo then trusting in Xuan. But Hong is more and more opposed to this camera and the presence of Bo.

This "movie" is both hysterical and silent. Although starring "real people", it is in fact an "animated film" in the true sense of the word. A "stage" pulled out by the simultaneous forces of infinite expansion and infinite collapse. Eight "puppets" pulled by the "stage". Two "puppets" with broken strings that appear and disappear. They pull each other's hair, trying to get rid of the "stage". They can't do anything. The constant repetition of frustration only strengthens their urge to get rid of the "stage". Also, although you don't need to wear any glasses, you can watch this movie as a real 3D or VR movie. Take off the "glasses" you were born with and maybe "you" can "discover" something from this "world". "A little something

Xu Wangsheng, an elderly migrant worker who returned to his hometown, had a relationship with his son Xu Chao because of his years away from home and his wife's illness. The crazy girl and Xu Chao had no guesses, and later they were stimulated outside. On the night of the winter solstice, Xu Chao was seen by his father when he raped a mad woman. Since then, the mad woman has Xu Chao in her heart. Xu Wangsheng asked someone to find a daughter-in-law for his son. When the blind date, Xu Chao deliberately opposed the father, causing the blind date to fail. The father and son were completely overthrown. Xu Chao secretly went to Guangzhou. On the thirtieth night of the year, Xu Chao died unexpectedly on the way back from Guangzhou. Xu Wangsheng decided to find a ghost wife for his son ...

마이키앙은 등대에서 일하는 30세 전후의 노총각이다. 외롭고 단조로운 생활속에 그는 꿈속에서 종종 첸킹이라는 여자를 만난다. 호텔에서 일하는 첸은 서른도 못되어 남편을 잃고 자신의 아들 과 함께 불운한 삶을 사는 여자다. 어느날 두사람은 만나게 되고 마이는 첸에게 자신과 관계를 맺을 것을 강요한다. 첸이 울자 마이는 심한 자책감을 느낀다. 호텔 지배인 모아저씨는 첸이 강간 당했다고 믿고 마이를 고소한다. 마이는 감옥에 갇히는데 나중에 첸이 강간이 아니라고 증언을 하여 마이는 석방된다. 첸은 세간의 입놀림의 표적이 되고, 그 사실을 알게된 마이는 첸을 찾아간다.

Documentary about a tribe of indigenous people in northern China.

In this talk, Li Hongqi reviewed his transition from fine art to cinema, and his aesthetic and philosophical exploration from his early 'So Much Rice' to recent 'The The'. Dir. Li Hongqi also shared his strong anxiety of his existence(born with melancholia), his thought on cinema art (actually, I don't think there's any movie worth making), his epistemology, his religious view, his consideration on contemporary cinema, and what he learned about living in seclusion.

The "Great Sichuan Earthquake" took place at 14:28 on May 12, 2008. In the days after, ordinary people salvage destroyed pig farms in the mountains, collect cheap scrapped metals, or pillaging other victims' homes. Behind the media circus of official visits is an inconsolable grief of families searching for loved ones. As the Lunar New Year approaches, vagabonds and family tell of the ill-handling of rebuilding schemes and misuse relief funds. As they prepare for another visit from a high official, the refugees are swept out of the town and into tent cities. The promise to put a roof over their heads before winter seems impossible to keep.

The core of the work is to explore and experiment the viewing mechanism of the image. Try to recreate the third space with the characteristic of "halo" through images. The halo points to ambiguity and a sense of distance, while the third space is the difference space constructed by reality and consciousness. The work uses fragments of daily life and poetic non-linear narrative as two narrative means, interspersing and advancing the narrative, which corresponds to the two viewing states of the audience, namely reverie and trance, and hopes to connect the audience with the image in the form of flowing water.

The work reflects on the relationship between technology and us by constructing an advanced technological product from the future. This future product will replace people's worship and spiritual sustentation of the power of gods and Buddhas in religion with technology, turning the invisible into visible. This paper probes into the possibility and influence of the deification of technology in the future, and puts forward the solution of "love, nostalgia and nature" to relieve the pain caused by the excessive intervention of technology.

A series of processes weave a dragnet, covering the lives of animals, and also trapped in the future of human beings. If we exchange identities with animals, will you choose to suffer or fight?

This "movie" is both hysterical and silent. Although starring "real people", it is in fact an "animated film" in the true sense of the word. A "stage" pulled out by the simultaneous forces of infinite expansion and infinite collapse. Eight "puppets" pulled by the "stage". Two "puppets" with broken strings that appear and disappear. They pull each other's hair, trying to get rid of the "stage". They can't do anything. The constant repetition of frustration only strengthens their urge to get rid of the "stage". Also, although you don't need to wear any glasses, you can watch this movie as a real 3D or VR movie. Take off the "glasses" you were born with and maybe "you" can "discover" something from this "world". "A little something

In a remote rural area of China, a middle-aged man took his father to a hospital to see a doctor. However, due to various conditions, he could only take care of his dying father at home while his child had to go to school. At this time, a colleague on the construction site said that there was a similar family in the next village. When they were feeding the old man with water, they lifted his arm and the old man choked and died.

A 17 year old boy from a village in the Sechuan province leaves for the big city looking for his father, who left 6 years before and has not been heard of since. The fact that his mother still receives money his father does nothing to tame his anger. He his not looking for a warm reunion, it is unconcealed revenge that drives him. Totally lost, he roams the big city with his basket of ducks on his back...

The little-known Hunan Suining County is an ordinary but full of magical places. As the theoretical point of the rocket wreckage launched by the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, it has greeted the rocket wreckage from the sky dozens of times in the past 20 years since 1990. This mysterious and dangerous “out-of-town visitor” broke the poor and peaceful life of the 160,000 locals in the jurisdiction. 2008 is China's "Olympic Year" and "Aerospace Year." The people of Suining, like the people of the whole country, are looking forward to the Olympics to pay attention to the Olympics and are proud of the growing strength of the comprehensive national strength including aerospace strength. They also have to bear the fate of falling from the sky.

It has been a month Chang's wife Ling Yue has been missing. With no reasons one fine day she went to work as usual and then never returns. No one knows where she went or what had happened to her. Chang could not figure out why she disappears out of the sudden. She left no message of whatever kind or clues. One day a man named Tong shows up and claims to be Ling Yues lover. Apparently Tong is looking for Ling Yue too. In a turn of event both men formed an uneasy alliance in order to find Ling Yue

Legendary Peking Opera master, Yuling Fang, emigrates to New York where he works in a nail salon. Realizing there is no one to inherit his legendary skills, he decides to mount an amateur production in order to keep alive the vanishing world he loves.