screening format
DCP
aspect ratio
1.33:1 (4:3)
sound format
5.1 Audiomix
original-language
Chinese
subtitles
German, English
In CHRYSANTHEMUM, Jingyuan Luo approaches the case of a Chinese "suicide jumper," living and reliving the trauma of a death made invisible by the state that had caused it. In wordless grief the flower of mourning blooms.
director
Jingyuan Luo
Production
Jingyuan Luo
Script
Jingyuan Luo
Editing
Jingyuan Luo
Animation
Jingyuan Luo
DOP
Jingyuan Luo, Pascal Dreier
Sound Design
Farah Wind
film school
Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM)
Festivals
2025
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
(Promotional Prize of the NRW Competition)
2025
KFFK - Kurzfilmfestival Köln, Germany
(3. Jurypreis im Deutschen Wettbewerb)
2025
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic
2025
interfilm Berlin: Internationales Kurzfilmfestival, Germany
2025
Animateka - International Animation Film Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2025
Internationales Filmfest Braunschweig, Germany
School
- Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM)
- Heumarkt 14
- 50667 Köln
- Deutschland
- +49 221 201890
- http://www.khm.de
Production
- Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM)
- Jingyuan Luo
Distribution
- Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM)
- Jingyuan Luo
Sales
- Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM)
- Jingyuan Luo
Jingyuan Luo
Jingyuan Luo, born 1996, is a transmedia artist currently studying at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. Jingyuan Luo's work questions the functioning of a society in crisis through individual, intimate snapshots.
Filmography
2022 The Yellow Ghost
2025 Chrysanthemum