“Who gets to decide what art is?” Dekanalog has revealed a new trailer for Art College 1994, an animated drama from Chinese filmmaker Jian Liu, also known for Have a Nice Day. This initially premiered at the 2023 Berlin Film Festival more than a year ago, and it played on the festival circuit all of 2023. Beginning on April 26th, Art College 1994, Liu Jian’s latest strikingly animated & affecting feature, opens for a week-long NYC exclusive theatrical run at Metrograph In Theater. Lao Wang works in a security department of a college in a big school town. Xiao Wang is a freshman. He has a conflict with his roommate and is taken to security by his counselor. In a room on this foggy winter day, Lao Wang and Xiao Li are tasting the life of their own, and something unexpected is about to happen… The town is waiting quietly for the next day as it always is. Described as a “shaggy, Slacker-ish tale from the pre-millennium Middle Kingdom,” based on the director’s own experiences at art college in China in the 1990s. Starring the voices of Dong Zijian, Chizi, Zhou Dongyu, and fellow filmmakers Jia Zhangke & Bi Gan. Animation fans especially need to see this. // Continue Reading ›