Film for me is, to run away into rich worlds and explore their stories. It’s about entertainment, and are for everyone to escape into. For the purpose of engagement, I am passionate about including new media forms with traditional film in order to provide my audience a new visual experience.
Qizhen Wang is an asian filmmaker, visual artist, and recent graduate of California College of the Arts with a BFA in Film. She grew up watching Charlie Caplin and black and white films. In her practice she employs physical comedy and black and white filming techniques of that time to echo the nostalgia of bygone eras while merging them with the context of the modern world.
Inspired by artists Jody Gillerman and Lynn Kirby, she was been exploring new media forms (multi-screen, 4D film, etc), and combining them with film. In April, 2018, her filmTed and Molly(multi-screen version) was included in the Art, Media, Science Exhibition at California College of the Arts.
As a Chinese artist living in a foreign country, she is interested in exploring Chinese social issues combined with global development. Her new work-in-progress Backbone is a documentary about Maanshan, her home city in the southern province of Anhui.
Exhibition:
-Ted and Molly (Multi-screen version 2018) as part of the exhibition
Art, Media, Science Exhibition at California College of the Arts
April 2018
-Ted and Molly (One screen version 2018) as part of the exhibition
Undergraduate Senior Film Exhibition at California College of the Arts
May 2018
Internships:
-Editor of New Classics Media in Beijing, China
June - July 2016
Sound and subtitle correcting for Wu Kong
-Assistant of director for How to have an American baby (unreleased)
May - September 2017
Post production, translation and transcript editing
-Assistant of director for Body Contact (unreleased)
June - August 2018
Post production, translation and transcript editing.
-Assistant of producer in Red Cube Commercial Company
February 2018
Gold Chef Grill commercial shooting