Lei Lei 雷磊

Break no.1 & Break no.2

Experimental film in 18 mins | 2024 | Second-hand photos, Found footage, Commercial Catalog.

Synopsis:
Photographs, snowy mountains, videotapes. Two stories of love and death.
Episode 1: The Lost Photographs.
Episode 2: The unfound movie videotapes.

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FESTIVALS - Rotterdam International Film Festival, 53rd edition of New Directors/New Films (ND/NF)

FESTIVALS - Rotterdam International Film Festival, 53rd edition of New Directors/New Films (ND/NF)

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Vintage light fixtures. Images and videos of a mundane past. Snowy caps and pedestrians seared into memory, to be replayed like a favorite TV show. The everyday laced with the grand cycles of life, memorable as love and death. —— San Diego Asian

Vintage light fixtures. Images and videos of a mundane past. Snowy caps and pedestrians seared into memory, to be replayed like a favorite TV show. The everyday laced with the grand cycles of life, memorable as love and death.


—— San Diego Asian Film Festival

After A Bright Summer Diary (IFFR 2020) and Ningdu (IFFR 2022) we once again welcome Lei Lei to Rotterdam with this compelling tribute to bygone images and memories.
As always, the mundane comes alive through a conscientious montage of gorgeous compositions. A two-part quest for what has been lost through time, Break no.1 & Break no.2 fires the imagination.

—— Rotterdam International Film Festival