Fine Art Film

Honglei and Lily (Honglei Li, Xiying Yang) are two contemporary artists of our generation who represent the future direction of multimedia and mixed-realities arts for our time. Their first-hand experiences in Beijing for the greater part of their youthful years and later in New York City are inestimable, and bring a new vision to any society and institution which they engage. Lily & Honglei draw their generation's unique artistic expression informed by powerful eyewitness experiences resulting from 'Tiananmen Incident' to 'September 11,' a generation whose psyches are indelibly trapped in a struggle to make sense of a fractured world and a future, which will guarantee independent thinking. Lily & Honglei attempt to carve their personal path and journey for freedom of artistic and intellectual expressions. Their work asserts aspects of western fantasies that are revealed as 'vacuous' when tested and that there is greater need than ever before for truthful understandings from both East and West as they enter into a newly profound global relationship. - Bryan McFarlane