Art is Dead

Art is Dead

2020 · 84 min · Drama

After shooting ‘S He’, ‘I’ fell into the bottleneck of creation. While interviewing some artists about how to break through the bottleneck period, I stumbled upon an artist’s body with a strange posture in his studio. Driven by curiosity and creative desire, ‘I’ began to investigate this dead artist with a camera. What happened next became more and more strange and uncontrollable…

Directed by Shengwei Zhou · Written by Shengwei Zhou

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