Protestant / Jiaotu (教徒)
Sun Xun (π Animation Studio)
2017, CN, 6'47''
The understanding of Luther and the spirit he represents has global significance for this new generation, especially under this complex political and religious climate. His spirituality can productively illuminate how one can make connections with the world that surpasses ethnicity, politics and even religion.
Razumevanje Lutra in duha, ki ga ta predstavlja, je globalnega pomena za novo generacijo, zlasti v današnjem zapletenem političnem in verskem ozračju. Njegova duhovnost lahko učinkovito osvetli povezavo s svetom, ki presega etnično pripadnost, politiko in celo religijo.
Recommended for children under 14 years old: Yes
Techniques: mixed animation techniques, stop motion, live-action footage
Language: Chinese
Directed by Sun Xun (孙逊)
Production: Xu Dan
Script, Scene Drawing: Sun Xun
Animation: Chen Xingye, Yu Yanping, Yin Yingjie, Sun Xun, Huang Ting
Editing: Sun Xun
Music: Zhang Fei, Flying Studio
Sun Xun (孙逊)
2009 Moved “∏” Animation Studio to Beijing, works in Beijing
2006 Established “∏” Animation Studio in Hangzhou
1980 Born in Fuxin, Liaoning Province
Education
2005 Graduated from Print-making Department of ChinaAcademy of Fine Arts
2001 Graduated from Art High School of China Academy of Fine Arts
Prizes
2014 The 8th AAC Art China • Young Artist Awards
2010 Chinese Contemporary Art Awards (CCAA Best Young Artist)
2010 Taiwan Contemporary Art Link (Young Art Award)
2010 The Civitella Ranieri Visual Arts Fellowship, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Umbria, Italy
Solo Exhibitions
2014 The 8th AAC Art China • Young Artist Awards
2010 Chinese Contemporary Art Awards (CCAA) (Best Young Artist) Taiwan Contemporary Art Link (Young Art Award)
The Civitella Ranieri Visual Arts Fellowship, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Umbria,Italy
Solo Exhibitions
2014
PALIMPSESTES – SUN Xun Solo Exhibition, ShanghART Singapore, Singapore
Brave New World, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hongkong
Yesterday Is Tomorrow, Hayward Gallery, London, U.K.
2013
Magician Party and Dead Crow, SUN Xun Residency Project, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing
2012
Last Night, Platform China (Hong Kong), Hong Kong
The Parallel World , A4 Contemporary Arts Center, Chengdu
Undefined Revolution, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Sun Xun: A Footnote to Time, Wall/ladder/machine, New York, USA
2011
Sun Xun · A Candid Dialogue, LOUIS VUITTON Taipei Maison, Taipei
Clown‘s Revolution, Vanguard Gallery,Shanghai
LAND-TA-MORPHOSIS Last of the Trilogy—Beyond-ism, I/O Gallery, Hongkong
Beyond-ism — Sun Xun Solo Exhibition, ShanghART Beijing
2010
Clown’s Revolution, Holland Animation Festival, Center Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
21KE, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai
The Soul of Time, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland
Beyond-ism, Yokohama Creativecity Center, Yokohama, Japan
2009
Sun Xun Solo Exhibition, ZIAM Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
Animals, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Sun Xun: The Dark Magician of New Chinese Animation-Pacific film archive Theater, California university of Berkeley USA
Sun Xun: The Dark Magician of New Chinese Animation, REDCAT CalArts, Los Angeles, U.S.A
His Story-Sun Xun Solo Exhibition, ShanghART H-Space, Shanghai
People’s Republic of Zoo, University of Essex UK
Sun Xun: Shock of Time, The Drawing Center, NY, USA
2008
Coal Spell, Platform China project space, Beijing
New China, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
2007
Mythos-SUN Xun Solo Exhibition, ShanghART F-Space, Shanghai
Film Festivals:
2013 37th Hong Kong International Film Festival , Hong kong
32nd Brussels Animation Film Festival, Brussels, Belgium
2012 9th Animateka International Animation Film Festival , Ljubljana, Slovenia
6th Big cartoon Festival, Moscow, Russia
2012 London International Animation Festival, London, UK
2012 Kuandu International Animation Festival, Taipei
2012 Milano Film Festival, Milano, Italy
2012 Xi’an International Animation Film Festival, Xi’an
6th Cinema Digital Seoul Film Festival, Seoul, Korea
2012 Guanajuato International Film Festival, Guanajuato, Mexico
The 58th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, Colgate University, Hamilton, USA
9th VIS Vienna Independent Shorts International Short Film Festival, Vienna, Austria
52nd Annecy International Animated Film Festival, Annecy, France
40th World Festival of Animated Film-Animafest Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
24th Filmfest Dresden International Short Film Festival, Dresden, Germany
2012 CPH PIX Copenhagen Film Festivals, Copenhagen, Denmark
15th Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
3rd AmerAsia Film Festival, Montreal, Canada
62nd Berlin International Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
2011 13th Wiesbaden International Weekend of Animation, Wiesbaden, Germany
30th Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada
5th Cinema Digital Seoul_Film Festiva, Seoul, Korea
17th Sarajevo Film Festival, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
35th Munich International Short Film Festival, Munich, Germany
9th Tabor Film Festival, Zabok, Croatia
2011 Metropolis Art Cinema, Beirut, Lebanon
25th Image Forum Festival, Tokyo & Kyoto, Japan
12th Jeonju International Film Festival, Jeonju, Korea
2011 Tiburon International Film Festival, Tiburon, U.S.A.
10th Rome Independent Film Festival, Roma, Italy
33rd Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France
40th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherland
30th Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Uppsala, Sweden
2010 32nd The Festival of 3 Continents, Nantes, France
World Film Festival of Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
18th Alter- Native International Short Film Festival, Romania
Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
5th anim’est International Animation Film Fetival, Bucharest, Romania
The 5th Beijing Independent Film Festival, Beijing
18th Film Festival ContraVision, Berlin, Germany
67th Venice International Film Festival, Venice, Italy
8th FILM PALACE FEST International Short Film Festival, Balchik, Bulgaria
6th International Short Film Festival Detmold, Detmold, Germany
VIS VIENNA INDEPENDENT 7th International Short Film Festival, Vienna, Austria
3rd Lviv International Festival of Visual Art WIZ-ART, Lviv, Ukraine
11th Jeonju International Festival, Jeonju, Korea
56th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
24th Image Forum Festival 2010, Tokyo; Kyoto; Fukuoka; Yokohama, Japan
53rd SAN FRANCISCO International Film Festival, San Francisco, U.S.A.
CPH PIX Copenhagen Film Festival 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark
4th BilBolBul International Comic Festival, Bologna, Italy
29th Anima Brussels Animation Film Festival, Brussels, Belgium
2009 Up-and-Coming Int. Film Festival Hannover 2009, Hannover, Germany
35th International Filmets Festival of Badalona, Badalona(Barcelona) Spain
11th Osian’s-Cinefan Film Festival, New Delhi, India
International Experimental Film & Video Festival, Nuovo Cinema Aquila, Rome, Italy
11th Wiesbaden International Weekend of Animation, Wiesbaden Germany
6th Curtocircuito International Short Film festival, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
International Amsterdam Film Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherland
4th anim’est International Animation Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
14th Split Film Festival, Split, Croatia
8th International Kansk Video festival, Moscow, Russian
20th Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival, Sao Paulo, Brazil
6th CON-CAN Movie Festival, Tokyo, Japan
7th International Short Film Festival of Salento Finibus Terrae, Apulia, Italy
7th CinemadaMare International Film Festival, Roma, Italy
5th International Short Film Festival Detmold, Detmold Germany
16th Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film 2009, Stuttgart, Germany
International Festival of Animated film AniFest 2009, Praha, Czech Republic
55th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
10th Jeonju International Film Festival, Jeonju, Korea
The 2009 BeFilm The Underground Film Festival, New York, U.S.A.
9th SONAR INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, Florence,Italy
11th Mecal International Short Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain
31st Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France
2008 2008 Regulations for the 1° Recife Janela Internacional de Cinema, Recife, Brazil
13th Tehran International Short Film Festival, Teheran, Iran
The ALTER-NATIVE 16th International Short Film Festiva, Romania
The 12th Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Festival Shadows 2008 Chinese Independent cinema, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
5th SEDICICORTO International Film Festival, Forli, Italy
4th International Short Detmold Film Festival, Detmold, Germany
Fresh International Short Film Festival, London, U.K.
16th International Filmfestival ContraVision, Berlin, Germany
The 31st Norwegian Short Film Festival, Oslo, Norway
24th Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany
17th Youth media festival, Berlin, Germany
2008 Santa Cruz Film Festival, Santa Cruz, U.S.A.
54th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
9th Jeonju International Film Festival, Jeonju, Korea
2007 25th Torino Film Festival, Torino, Italy
up-and-coming Intl. Film Festival Hannover, Hannover, Germany
AURORA Film Festival, Norwich, U.K.
23rd International Berlin Short Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
Shoot Me Shortfilm Festival, Hague, The Netherlands
26th Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Uppsala, Sweden
Future Shorts Festival, U.K.
Mecal Intermacional Short Film Festival, Barcelona, Spain
Split shortfilm Festival, Croatia
EXiS 2007, Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul, seoul, Korea
Alucine Toronto Latin@Media Festival, Toronto, Canada
53rd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Oberhausen, Germany
2006 Shadows Festival, Paris, France
Projects
2012 Republic of Jing Bang, STPI, Singapore
13th Jeonju International Film Festival-Korean Short Competition Jury, Jeonju, Korea
A Celebration Show for Sun Xun’s Work Nominated by 62nd Berlin International Film
Festival, ShanghART Beijing, Beijing
Art Stage Singapore – Beyond-ism, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Singapore
2011 Party, Sheraton Shanghai Hongkou Hotel, Shanghai
Annual Meeting of the new Champions 2011, World Economic Forum Summer Davos,
Dalian
Huge Character, Cooperation Project by SUN Xun, TANG Maohong, ZHANG Ding,
ShanghART Beijing, Beijing
2010 14th Holland Animation Festival Poster, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Discover, ShContemporary 2010, Art Fairs Shanghai Exhibition Center, Shanghai
2009 Residency program in Yokohama, ZAIM Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
Workshop, California institute of arts, Los Angeles, USA
Pawnshop, vitamin (The Shop), Beijing
Sun Xun: Artist in Residence, University Gallery, Colchester Campus, U.K.
Art Salon, A conversation between Sun Xun and Bérénice Reynaud, China Institute, New York, U.S.A.
Sun Xun, From painting to animation, Smithsonian Museum Freer and Sackler Gallery, Washington DC, U.S.A.
Future Shorts Festival,
2008 My China Now – A Moving Image Project, Hayward Gallery (concrete Bar), London; Brewhouse Theatre and Arts Centre, Taunton; City Art Centre, Edinburgh; Filming East Festival, London; Filming East Festival, London; Filming East Festival, Oxford; The Yorkshire Waterways Museum, Goole ect., U.K.
Collections
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, U.S.A.
Franks Suss Collection, U.K.
Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway
DSL Collection, Beijing
https://www.shanghartgallery.com/galleryarchive/artists/name/sunxun