Lei Lei

Lei Lei

Born: January 1, 1985
in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China
Lei Lei (1985, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province) is a Chinese animator, filmmaker and artist. He graduated from Tsinghua University in 2009, with a master's degree in Animation. Since then, he has worked as an independent filmmaker and experimental animation artist. His animated short This Is Love (2010) was awarded Best Narrative Short at Ottawa International Animation Festival. From then on, many of his short films have received awards at festivals worldwide and he has been selected for many artist residencies. Since 2017, Lei has spent most of his time in Los Angeles, where he is a full-time faculty member at the department of Experimental Animation, CalArts. Ningdu is selected for the IFFR Tiger Award Competition 2022.

Movies for Lei Lei...

That Day, on the River
Title: That Day, on the River
Released: February 16, 2023
Type: Movie
Searching for the house his father grew up in, director Lei Lei charts the story of a childhood in rural China using a mix of found footage, collage, and animation techniques: a moving account of all the things the father thinks he was not good at.
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Lupita From Now On
Title: Lupita From Now On
Released: September 29, 2022
Type: Movie
What happened to Lupita after the frustrated attempt to get into the dance battle? And what's up with Huo now, the dancer that Lupita idolized? What remains of that life-changing afternoon in Lupita's best friend memory?
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Uncle Nine:  The Curious Case of the Ancient Coffin
Title: Uncle Nine: The Curious Case of the Ancient Coffin
Character: Chen Sanfa
Released: December 7, 2021
Type: Movie
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Recycled
Title: Recycled
Released: June 10, 2013
Type: Movie
An exhaustively created moving image mural of Beijing and her inhabitants, painstakingly extracted from an archive of half a million 35mm negatives.
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Title: Wipe Out The Bandits of Wulong Mountain
Released: January 19, 2012
Type: TV