Liu Xiaodong

A portrait of urban anomie focusing on two bohemian artists who drift through the miasma of old Beijing in the 1980s.

Student film by Zhang Yuan, shot on 35mm film.

A rock musician looks for his girl-friend who left while pregnant, trying to decide whether to keep the baby.

While the Emperor needs the Little Buddha - hidden amongst the little monks at the Shaolin Temple - to save him from a deadly disease, King Fifth, who wants to become the Emperor himself, treks to the Shaolin Temple with the intention of killing the Little Buddha. While escaping from King Fifth, the little monks have a number of adventures, including learning Drunken Fist style kung fu.

Short film by Liu Xiaodong and Yang Bo.

The contemporary Chinese artist Liu Xiaodong traveled to the border of the United States and Mexico for his new painting project. Faced with complicated border and refugee issues, a foreign country, and stranger people, he used his Chinese sensibility and artist’s simplicity to find inspiration for his creation.