When the Light Goes On Again
Artist: Ding Yiru (School of Film Art)DUST
Instructor: Zhou Jiali
A nearby park becomes desert when a suicide by drowning occurs there. Soon, it shall be torn down. A plaza will be erected in its place. The small lighthouse whose neon lights used to light up at night appear dull and dim after the incident. Song Can, a girl who has returned home after studying abroad, feels like a stranger in her own home. She returns to the park that she used to visit and is upset at the sight of the sorry state of the lighthouse. She started asking around − about why the lighthouse is no longer lit and about the girl who killed herself. She met her friend You Jiahuan's aunt and tried to get the lighthouse to shine again, just like it had in her happy childhood memories. The memories that bind Song Can and the lighthouse become clues in this film while Song's nostalgia, questions, and quest regarding the lighthouse drive the story forward.
DUST
Artists: Huang Jiahao, Wang Qi (School of Film Art)
Instructors: Yang Shu, Yan Bowen
Due to various reasons, humans were forced to migrate. As their final resort, they have decided to head toward an artificial planet. The spacecraft ferrying the final group of migrants arrives at a "satellite" that has reached the end of its lifespan. A countdown for self-detonation begins. The remains of the scouting team are completely destroyed. The migrants on the spacecraft have long perished. Humankind and their manmade entities are completely decimated. Everything turns to dust. Set against a context of death and butchered cultures, this film intertwines the real world and videos to tell a story about a man's longing for his family. Everything seemed so familiar and yet so foreign then. He witnessed funerals and death and learned about cultures and duty. The creative team put together this graduation work with the modest knowledge they have accumulated in the hope of doing their part as students and advocating certain values and mindsets.
About BRAIN GARDEN
Brain Garden – The 5th Zhijiang International Youth Art Festival 2023 & CAA Graduation Season kicked off online and offline concurrently on June 1. This edition of Youth Art Festival is co-hosted by Zhejiang Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Zhejiang Provincial Department of Education, Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, Publicity Department of the CPC Hangzhou Municipal Committee, China Academy of Art (CAA), and Zhejiang Conservatory of Music under the guidance of the Publicity Department of CPC Zhejiang Provincial Committee and Hangzhou Municipal People's Government. The festival features a wide variety of online and offline artistic shows and activities centered on the future and the youth. It is a grand city-wide artistic feast in Hangzhou.
The Youth Art Festival is presented online on CAACOSMOS and West Lake Sky Screen and offline at six venues, namely Zhejiang Exhibition Hall, West Lake Art Museum, Zhejiang Art Museum, World Tourism Museum (1368 Xiangxi Road), Quan Shanshi Art Center, and Yichuang Town, with a total exhibition area of nearly 70,000 square meters. Over 3,000 works from more than 2,500 Class of 2023 graduates (including 1,766 undergraduates, 688 masters, and 97 doctors) are showcased. Over 2,000 young artists, designers, writers, and scholars have gathered online for this youthful art event.
Related news: https://en.caa.edu.cn/news/1039.html
