Yan Shanchun (1934–2024), a renowned animation director at the Shanghai Animation Film Studio, passed away on July 25, 2024. After graduating from the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in 1958, he joined the Shanghai Animation Film Studio later the same year. Over his long career, he has worked as animator, animation designer, art designer, … Continue reading Senior Animator Yan Shanchun (1934-2024) Passed away on July 25, 2024 →

Chinese Anime: The Junctive Geopolitics of Regional Media, lecture by Professor Thomas Lamarre, 9:30-11am, May 22, 2024 (Wed, HK Time), Zoom For Zoom ID, please click:  Chinese Anime: The Junctive Geopolitics of Regional Media, lecture by Professor Thomas Lamarre, 9:30-11am, May 22, 2024 (Wed, HK Time), Zoom Share This:

Anime’s Knowledge Cultures: From Astro Boy to China’s Zhai Generation, book talk by Professor Jinying Li, 9-10:30am, May 16, 2024 (Thursday, HK time), Zoom For Zoom ID, please click:  Anime’s Knowledge Cultures: From Astro Boy to China’s Zhai Generation, book talk by Professor Jinying Li, 9-10:30am, May 16, 2024 (Thursday, HK time), Zoom Share This:

Cinephile’s Summer Issue 18.2 is calling for papers and video essays on the alchemical potential of animated media works: that is, the creative, generative, transformative processes through which animation artists reimagine the medium’s form, aesthetic, and cross-cultural linkages. With several smaller animation productions gaining commercial success [Ne Zha (China, 2019), Wolfwalkers (Ireland, 2020), Nimona (US, … Continue reading Call for Papers: Cinephile, Summer Issue 18.2, 2024 →

CALL FOR BOOK REVIEWS animation: an interdisciplinary journal is an international, peer-reviewed journal with an arts and humanities focus that brings together research in animation, film and media studies, art and design, visual culture, architecture, new media technologies, creative practices and more. After a period of dormancy of our Book Reviews section, we are now … Continue reading Call for Book Reviews: Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal →

LIN Wenxiao (1935-2023) passed away on June 7, 2023, only half a year later after her husband Yan Dingxian (1936-2022) passed away in December 2022. Lin graduated from the Beijing Film Academy in 1953 and immediately joined the Shanghai Animation Film Studio, where she worked as animation designer and director. She was key animator for Little Tadpoles … Continue reading Female Animation Director Lin Wenxiao (1935-2023) Passed Away on June 7, 2023 →

Chinese Film: Realism and Convention from the Silent Era to the Digital Age (Jason McGrath, University of Minnesota Press, 2022) features a few chapters on CGI, animation, and live-action cinema. It is available for downloading at: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/chinese-film Share This:

The School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong is pleased to invite you and your company to the screening of Relentless Melt No. 26: New Animated Abstractions. Date:               15 May 2023 Time:               6:30 PM  Venue:             M6094 Future Cinema Studio, L6, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre                          18 Tat Hong Avenue, Kowloon … Continue reading Screening of Relentless Melt No. 26: New Animated Abstractions, City University of Hong Kong, 6:30pm, May 15, 2023 →

Topic: The Sublime Figure of (In)animation Abstract: Animation has long been defined and analyzed as an art of movement. Drawing attention to the fluid movement of outlines in animated cartoon characters, Sergei Eisenstein proposes the concept of “plasmaticness,” which refers to the stretching, elongating, inflating, deflating, transforming, and deforming of bodily forms. Following this train … Continue reading Zoom Talk: The Sublime Figure of (In)Animation, by Daisy Yan Du, 3:30-5pm, Thur, Feb 23, 2023, Hong Kong time →

Rhythm of the National Dance•Contrast: When Dance Meets Digital Art   Rhythm of the National Dance performance, supported by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Macao S.A.R., is organised by the Chinese Dancers Association, MGM Macau, and Macau Dancers Association, and co-organised by the … Continue reading Event: Ink-painting Animation & Dance, February 8, 2023, 20:00-21:45, MGM Cotai Theatre, Macao →