Shadow Life

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2011

Animation

10 minutes

Summary

Shadow Life, evokes folklore and communist festivals. The vignettes are performed by shadow puppets; the form of the hand is a synecdoche for the manual labor of workers and peasants, while the silhouette medium allows quick metamorphoses of a grandstanding dictator to a barking dog, a swaying tree to a crane transforming the landscape. A remake of a 2000 Russian pop hit serves as the sound track to the third part, Transmigration—a farcical rejoinder to Mao’s cover of Marxism-Leninism.

Cao Fei

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StatusReleased: 13 years ago
July 8, 2011

LanguageUnknown

Spoken LanguagesUnknown

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