Chung Hwa HB

Director: Xu Tong

Genre: Documentary

Country: China

Language: Chinese with English and Chinese subtitles

Runtime: 76 min

How many lines can a person draw in a lifetime? It’s nearly impossible to calculate. Artist Li Di spent one month drawing hundreds of thousands of lines on a 26-meter long wall of a museum with 800 Chung Hwa HB pencils. As the artist used up these physical materials, how much inner spirit was also consumed? This question is even more impossible to answer. Chung Hwa HB offers visual evidence of the artist’s creative process, filled with both anticipation and anxiety.

Xu Tong

Xu Tong studied News Photography at the Communications University of China, and currently works and lives in Beijing. His works include Wheat Harvest, Fortune Teller, and Shattered, which are also known as “The Drifters Trilogy.” His recent works are The Fourth Brother, Cut Out the Eyes, and The Barefoot Doctor. Xu Tong has both participated and won awards in a number of domestic and international film festivals.

Li Di

Li Di studied oil painting at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), and won the first prize in the oil painting category at CAFA in 1985. After graduating in 1986, he started his teaching career at CAFA. Li went on to study abroad at Brunswick Academy of Fine Arts in Germany in 1990. In 1995 he graduated from the Liberal Arts department at the Brunswick Academy of Fine Arts, and obtained a Masters in Art. Li Di has attended many domestic and international art exhibitions and has won many awards.

Gu Yan

Gu Yan is the director of Yuan Art Museum, Beijing.

Xu Tong

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19:00--20:20 Screening

20:20--21:00 Q&A

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