Shengwei Zhou
Directing
Biography
Shengwei Zhou (周圣崴) is a Chinese filmmaker, stop-motion animator and mixed-media digital artist. He holds an undergraduate degree in Art Theory from Peking University, and a MFA in Expanded Animation from University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts. His representative feature animation SHe won the Best Animated Feature Film Nomination at the 21st Shanghai International Film Festival, known as the A category film festival defined by FIAPF. His feature film Art is Dead won the Spirit of Freedom Award at 14th FIRST International Film Festival. He is currently working on an ongoing animation and VR/XR series called Perfect City. His art work SHe, Art is Dead, Let’s Fall In Love, and Perfect City series has been selected to over 100 festivals including Oscar, BAFTA, Canadian Screen Award qualified film festivals and exhibitions all over the world and has been reported by Hollywood Variety magazine.
Known For
In a dystopian world, male shoes dominate and the females—high-heels with spindly vines—are kept strictly for breeding purposes. Under disguise, a female breaks loose and attempts to move beyond her confines. Her attempt alters not only her fate but the very fabric of society.
S He
The film combines animation and mockumentary to get a glimpse of the boring but romantic daily life of a middle-aged man living alone from the perspective of a monitor. I put my emotional feelings and thoughts into this short film as a response of the pandemic. I want to illustrate the individual’s desire for love in this isolate environment.
Let's Fall in Love
After shooting ‘S He’, ‘I’ fell into the bottleneck of creation. While interviewing some artists about how to break through the bottleneck period, I stumbled upon an artist’s body with a strange posture in his studio. Driven by curiosity and creative desire, ‘I’ began to investigate this dead artist with a camera. What happened next became more and more strange and uncontrollable…
Art is Dead
Four men in a parallel universe encounter one another and then separate. He Sen and Lin Feng hooked up and were sleeping in bed together when they had the same dream. For He Sen it was a sweet dream, but for Lin Feng it was a sad dream about parting ways.
Forest Dreaming
A game of cat and mouse reaches intense heights in this child's nightmarish journey.
Perfect City: The Bravest Kid
First episode of Perfect City animation and digital arts series. Lured by the perfect hallucinogenic liquid, Perfect Spray, a wooden monster mother decides to carve her root baby into a human.