
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
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
7.0A 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
NRThe Moon is a fundamental energy influence on human.
The Moon
2006
NRShort film by Sandy Ding, experimental filmmaker/musician from Beijing, China.
Salt Lake
2009
4.8To 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
6.0A film by Sandy Ding.
Mancoon
2007
5.2An enclosed dream of dream, trance of an innocent past to a dance of shamans.
Dream Enclosure
2014
5.2An enclosed dream of dream, trance of an innocent past to a dance of shamans.
Dream Enclosure
2014
6.0A 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
NRThis 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
NRThis 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
4.0Transformative 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
NRShort film by Sandy Ding, experimental filmmaker/musician from Beijing, China.
Infancy
2006
NRShort film by Sandy Ding, experimental filmmaker/musician from Beijing, China.
The Death Valley Is Good
2008
NRProbably the first film by Sandy Ding, experimental filmmaker/musician from Beijing, China.
Breath the Glass
2005
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
4.0The "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
