Hu Jinqing

Shot in 1983, edited for the VISIONS: CINEMA programme in 1985, a short documentary about Shanghai Animation Studio.

Twenty animators from the U.S., Switzerland, Poland and China express their friendship with and love of animation in a series of animated variations on the standard countdown.

By chance, Kui Kui picked up a wounded goat. The kind Kui Kui took the goat home and healed its injury. In order to find the owner of the goat, Kui Kui wrote a claim notice, but he didn't know that the notice was blown away by the strong wind within a few days after it was posted, so Kui Kui wrote another one, this time, he posted the notice on his mother on the tractor.

Hong Xiaobing Xiuxiu and Kwai Kui had a conflict over a bamboo shoot growing in the house. Under the influence of her grandmother, Kwai Kwai wanted to eat the bamboo shoots. Xiuxiu thinks that the bamboo shoots were drilled from underground by the bamboo of the production team and should be owned by the public.

Fierce battle between a hungry heron and a crafty clam.

A cicada is resting high on a tree. It is chirping for all it’s worth and drinking in the dew, oblivious of a mantis behind. The mantis, bending over and arching up its front leg, is going to catch the cicada but does not know that there is an oriole beside it. The bird has stretched out its neck, ready to peck at the mantis. Again the oriole is unaware that a weasel is sneaking up to it. The three creatures all covet gains ahead without being aware of an imminent danger behind.

Twenty animators from the U.S., Switzerland, Poland and China express their friendship with and love of animation in a series of animated variations on the standard countdown.

By chance, Kui Kui picked up a wounded goat. The kind Kui Kui took the goat home and healed its injury. In order to find the owner of the goat, Kui Kui wrote a claim notice, but he didn't know that the notice was blown away by the strong wind within a few days after it was posted, so Kui Kui wrote another one, this time, he posted the notice on his mother on the tractor.

Hong Xiaobing Xiuxiu and Kwai Kui had a conflict over a bamboo shoot growing in the house. Under the influence of her grandmother, Kwai Kwai wanted to eat the bamboo shoots. Xiuxiu thinks that the bamboo shoots were drilled from underground by the bamboo of the production team and should be owned by the public.

Fierce battle between a hungry heron and a crafty clam.

A cicada is resting high on a tree. It is chirping for all it’s worth and drinking in the dew, oblivious of a mantis behind. The mantis, bending over and arching up its front leg, is going to catch the cicada but does not know that there is an oriole beside it. The bird has stretched out its neck, ready to peck at the mantis. Again the oriole is unaware that a weasel is sneaking up to it. The three creatures all covet gains ahead without being aware of an imminent danger behind.

No synopsis available yet.

Based on an ancient proverb (which one could translate into ‘it’s dogged as does it’), this film tells about a fisherman who is disturbed by two pelicans and who disguises himself as a scarecrow to catch the two birds.

The black fish is violent, devouring fish and shrimps, and grabbing bait hooks with the tortoises, vying to cook in the cauldron.

The rat steals a fish, but the cat takes the fish from the rat.

No synopsis available yet.

No synopsis available yet.

A mouse bribes a cat.

A mouse bribes a cat.

The little golden monkey is spoiled by his mother, and his temperament is becoming more and more rude, and the little animal is reluctant to be its playmate.

The butterfly always manages to escape his pursuer - no matter if it's a wasp, spider, frog or a cat. But whenever he is chased by a human collector with a net, he is quite helpless.

No synopsis available yet.

The dog chased the mouse, the black cat prevented the dog from scratching, and he didn't catch the mouse and let the dog nosy.

One egg gives birth to two chicks, one black and one white. The two chicks are cultivated into gladiatorial killers.