Experimental film in 38 mins | 2023 | Second-hand photos, Found footage, Commercial Catalog.
SYNOPSIS:
"In fact, I've been doing well in school since I was a child." my father smiled.
In 2016, my father and I traveled to Ningdu by bus to do preliminary research for my animated feature film SILVER BIRD AND RAINBOW FISH. We did the field recording and looked for the house where he lived as a boy and the bridge he walked on to the school.During the trip, we talked about his childhood memories and things he wasn't good at.
In Lei Lei’s That Day, on the River, newspaper clippings, historical photographs and a film about a female basketball player serve as the source material for an exploration of his father’s childhood in provincial China.
“‘In fact, I’ve been doing well in school since I was a child,’ my father smiled. In 2016, my father and I travelled to Ningdu by bus to do preliminary research for my animated feature film Silver Bird and Rainbow Fish. We did the field recording and looked for the house where he lived as a boy and the bridge he walked on to the school. During the trip, we talked about his childhood memories and things he wasn’t good at.”
— Berlinale 2023