Sandy Ding

Directing

Sandy Ding

Beijing, China

Sandy Ding is an experimental filmmaker from Beijing, China. He graduated from California Institute of the Arts Film and Video MFA in 2007, and now teaching in China Central Academy of Fine Arts. His films are distributed by Canyon Cinema and LIGHT CONE (France). Most of his films are focused on mysteries and the subconscious, using film material and digital techniques to escalate the screen. He also work on sound and experimental music. His work has been shown in festivals and private screenings inside and outside China.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Water Spell poster
6.5

"Sandy Ding's WATER SPELL is a bold, abstract journey that takes us into the psychic interior of our very cellular structure... and back. For me, this film is about reincarnation and transformation, on both the spiritual and sub-atomic levels. This is not an easy film, but it is a powerful one."

--Nina Menkes

Water Spell

2007

Prisms poster
7.0

A deep colorful abstract film about marginal light leaking through fragment of transparent structures. Within and outside the time temple, stare at mysteries in the depth of details and trapped lights, the observers went into a profound sub consciousness place, in which, the goddess, the temple and the stairs are haunted images, yet vivid in the deep black cosmos.

Prisms

2012

The Moon poster
NR

The Moon is a fundamental energy influence on human.

The Moon

2006

Salt Lake poster
NR

Short film by Sandy Ding, experimental filmmaker/musician from Beijing, China.

Salt Lake

2009

Night Awake poster
4.8

To summon the third eye awakening, we should not agitate the surface of the mind and physical eye, but soothe and provoke the third eye to awaken. In the gap of time, the flame of images that rise and become eternity is forming the rhythm and the speech. The teachings received in my travels and in green crystals. In distanced mysteries, the half rotten emulsion is the art of metaphysical connection and path of the awakening.

Night Awake

2016

Mancoon poster
6.0

A film by Sandy Ding.

Mancoon

2007

Dream Enclosure poster
5.2

An enclosed dream of dream, trance of an innocent past to a dance of shamans.

Dream Enclosure

2014

Dream Enclosure poster
5.2

An enclosed dream of dream, trance of an innocent past to a dance of shamans.

Dream Enclosure

2014

The Cradle poster
6.0

A dark subtle poetry about return to nothingness and death written on 16mm color reversal film. The film tries to bring out a environment that deposits at the bottom of everyone’s life. The title of the film means the “cradle” in Croatian language. It is the same peace in the cradle and the grave.

The Cradle

2017

Mote It Be poster
NR

This film concentrated the crystal energy of earth nature, expended the trace and texture of mote. It try to use powerful flicker image to tune up the electro magnetic field in human brain, activate the imagination of receivers, and pass on the information on earth.

Mote It Be

2011

Mote It Be poster
NR

This film concentrated the crystal energy of earth nature, expended the trace and texture of mote. It try to use powerful flicker image to tune up the electro magnetic field in human brain, activate the imagination of receivers, and pass on the information on earth.

Mote It Be

2011

The Radio Wave of Blood Beneath the Dirt Ice and Flowers poster
4.0

Transformative dance in the in-between space, celebration of the chemistry wave, film material and human blood, a trance poetry.

The Radio Wave of Blood Beneath the Dirt Ice and Flowers

2006

Infancy poster
NR

Short film by Sandy Ding, experimental filmmaker/musician from Beijing, China.

Infancy

2006

The Death Valley Is Good poster
NR

Short film by Sandy Ding, experimental filmmaker/musician from Beijing, China.

The Death Valley Is Good

2008

Breath the Glass poster
NR

Probably the first film by Sandy Ding, experimental filmmaker/musician from Beijing, China.

Breath the Glass

2005

Window of the World Part 1: Hairstyle Colidascope poster
NR

“A powerful flicker film made from 35mm images of fashionable hats and hair.” (Pip Chodorov)

Window of the World Part 1: Hairstyle Colidascope

2019

River in Castle poster
4.0

The "River" is symbolized emotion and the "Castle" is symbolized crisis, distinction and liberation. When the film liberates its original contact by physically weaving it and printing through dense chemistry, the malted lights speaks this transformation.

River in Castle

2016