A Bright Summer Diary

Synopsis

“The photo was taken using a painted board in Kuling Park on Lushan…”
A woman is reminiscing about the story behind a photograph: it was a bright summer day
in the 1980s. Her family traveled to Lushan to escape the heat.
As her memory unfolds, we gradually come to see the forgotten history and that very
photograph being damaged by water stain.

Director Biography

Lei Lei, Artist/Filmmaker, 1985 Born in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province. An experimental animation artist with his hands on video arts, painting, installation, music and VJ performance also. In 2009 He got a master's degree in animation from Tsinghua University. In 2010, his film This is LOVE was shown at Ottawa International Animation Festival and awarded The 2010 Best Narrative Short. In 2013 his film Recycled was the Winner Grand Prix shorts - non-narrative at Holland International Animation Film Festival. In 2014 he is the Jury of Zagreb International Animation Film Festival, and he was the winner of 2014 asian cultural council grant. In 2017 he works in CalArts Experimental Animation program as Faculty. In 2018 he invited for New Academy Member for the Short Films and Feature Animation branch. In 2019 his first feature film Breathless Animals has been selected by Berlinale Forum.