Cutout Animation(HKAFF 2017)

Cutout animation, a technique that integrates the folk art of paper-cutting, was developed in 1958 by Wan Guchan, one of the pioneering Wan Brothers of Chinese animation. His first film in this style, Pigsy Eats Watermelon, uses characters from Journey to the West to impart a moral tale about greed and gluttony. The following year Wan made Fisher Boy, based on a post-Opium War tale about an oppressed fisherman who catches a magical bowl. Meanwhile, four monkeys try to catch fish to no avail in Shen Zuwei's colorful and comical 1983 short Monkey Fishing. Based on a Hani folk tale, Wang Bairong's Golden Rooster-winning Fire Boy follows the adventures of a boy who risks his life to recover a sacred tinder from a demon.