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Artist Portrait | Luo Jian
马爹利艺术家企划 | 罗柬
she’s mercedes
梅赛德斯奔驰 X 李旻果
Cinema is a loaded gun.
电影是一把装满子弹的枪。
Luo Jian {pronounced: LwOr-TSian} is a director and screenwriter born in the Uyghur Autonomous Region of China on the Gobi Desert, a place that claims to be the world’s furthest place from the sea. It is where Asia and Europe meet. It is the West of the East and the East of the West - just like her films.
Graduating with an MFA degree in Film Directing from NYU, her thesis film 'What Do You Know About the Water and the Moon' premiered at the 2019 Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival (grand prix nominee) and screened at over 40 cool places including BFI London Film Festival (best short nominee), Palm Springs International ShortFest (best live-action film award), Stockholm International FF (Aluminum Horse award), Pendance Film Festival (Jury Award), AFI Fest, before it launched the NOWNESS Asia platform as one of its 6 international launching films.
Jian is the recipient/participant of the Ang Lee film grant, the Hollywood Foreign Press Award, the Artist in Residence program at Palm Springs, and the UK Future Takes program with BFI & Film4.
In between her directing work, Jian teaches filmmaking to elderly immigrants at senior centers in Flushing, New York.
“The story is simple, a young Chinese woman gives birth to a jellyfish during an abortion… it’s a short which carries itself with strong visual poetry, forming a beautiful concoction of longing and magical realism." DIRECTORS NOTES
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Filmography 作品年表
The Windless Mystica Season 3
documentary series, China
Synopsis | Since Wa musician Yong’s death, his band stopped playing Wa music. Three years later, the band decided to take a pilgrimage back to Yong's hometown, reuniting with their lost partner in rivers, trees, dreams and the sound of Wa violin.
Naomang
documentary, China
Synopsis | Tailor by day, chef by night… On the 32nd floor of a commercial compound in Beijing, there is a man who leaves behind his life as a tailor to run a midnight canteen.
What Do You Know About the Water and the Moon
short film, China
Synopsis | A girl gives birth to a jellyfish during an attempted abortion.
Cheongsam
short film, USA
Synopsis |As part of the mourning process, a widow purchases a cheongsam that her husband’s mistress used to wear.
Nobody Says I Love You
short film, USA
Synopsis | Three young Chinese women discover that none of them has ever said “I love you“ to their parents through a drinking game Never Have I Ever. Tonight, they decide to do it together.
Guqin
documentary, China
Synopsis | Mr. Zhu, a Guqin Master devoted his whole life to teaching and promoting a Chinese ancient instrument in a confucius temple.
Grandma Gao
documentary, China
Synopsis | Yaojie Gao (age91), a Chinese AIDS activist who has been honored for her work by the United Nations and had spent time under house arrest, eats soup alone in the apartment.