The Enduring Passion for Ink

The Enduring Passion for Ink: Films on Contemporary Ink Painters is a 2013 documentary film independently produced by scholar-curator Britta Erickson. The film features 10 contemporary Chinese ink artists at the vanguard of the contemporary Chinese art world today.

The Enduring Passion for Ink
Directed byBritta Erickson
Produced byBritta Erickson
CinematographyRichard Widmer
Edited byRichard Widmer
Release date
  • 2013 (2013)
Running time
10 shorts, 12 minutes each
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The documentary opens the door to what contemporary Chinese ink painting is to a wider audience and addresses fundamental choices confronting these leading ink artists.

The 10 artists featured span a wide range of ages, education backgrounds, artistic approaches, and philosophies. They are:

  1. Bingyi
  2. Chen Haiyan
  3. Cui Zhenkuan
  4. Li Huasheng
  5. Li Jin
  6. Liu Dan
  7. Wang Dongling
  8. Xu Bing
  9. Yang Jiechang
  10. Zheng Chong bin

The film follows the scholar/curator of this project into the studios of these artists where the viewer can watch as these artist's work unfold.

The artists share in the intimacy of their studio their experience and views on ink as a medium versus other art forms, their creative expression, and the boundaries and innovation of ink art in relation to the traditional with scholar-curator Britta Erickson.

Development

The film is solely produced, directed, curated by scholar-curator Britta Erickson who wished to create a project of her own at the time when she turned 50.[1]

US-born Richard Widmer shot and edited the documentary.[2]

Screening

The film has been presented at:

  • The Asia Society, Hong Kong (May 2013) [3]
  • Medienraum im Museum für Asiatische Kunst, Berlin (April 2016) [4]
  • by The Ink Society, Hong Kong in collaboration with Duddell's (May 2016) [5]
  • MOVIE MOVIE Life is Art Festival 2016 (September 2016) [6]
  • ikonoTV (April 2017)

References
  1. Tsui, Karen. "China's Enduring Passion For Ink: A Project On Contemporary Ink Artists".
  2. "INK". The Enduring Passion for Ink.
  3. "The Enduring Passion for Ink". Asia Society.
  4. Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu. "Die beständige Leidenschaft für Tusche ..." www.smb.museum.
  5. "Events - The Ink Society". www.inksociety.org.
  6. "Britta Erickson’s The Enduring Passion For Ink(Movie Movie: Life Is Art 2016) - Broadway Circuit".
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