Ink-wash & Puppet Animation(HKAFF 2017)

Applying the traditional aesthetics of ink-wash painting, ink-wash animation represented a great artistic breakthrough for Chinese animation, but very few such films were ever made due to the resources required. From 1961 to 1988, Shanghai Animation Film Studio produced four ink-wash films. The first, Tadpoles Looking For Their Mother, whimsically depicts tadpoles meeting different animals while searching for their mother. The last, Feeling from Mountain and Water, is a lyrical masterpiece about an elderly zither musician and his disciple. Based on a tale from a Dunhuang Caves painting, A Deer of Nine Colors is animated in the style of ancient Buddhist paintings.