Shenzhen at night, copyist painters recount their daily lives and their craft. Their acts shift alternately between an artistic and blue-collar imagery, from new technology to classical techniques. Here, another history of painting is being drawn.
Shānzhài Screens
A film by
Paul Heintz
Biography
Paul was born in 1989 in Saint-Avold (France). He is a Fine Arts graduate from Beaux-Arts de Nancy, Arts Décoratifs de Paris and Le Fresnoy, studio national des arts contemporains.
His work goes through object, sound, video, installation and films. His first film “Non Contractual” was screened at RIDM, Indie Lisboa and FID. His last film “Hearths” was selected in more than 20 festivals including IFFR, FIDMarseille, Dok Leipzig and Indie Lisboa.
Paul Heintz’s field of action is a bizarre set of cases where what is real is largely imbued with fiction, and where social normativity also makes its weight entirely felt. There is an inherent toxicity to imagination and fiction when they combine their approval of the social norm, as is the case with storytelling for example. From there, Paul Heintz enters the logic of fiction, takes it further and lets through redeeming current.
Filmography
- Shānzhài Screens – 23’ – 2020
- Foyers / Hearths – 18’ – 2018
- Non contractuel / Non contractual – 16’ – 2015
