Qianqian Zhang & Jingjing Lu
To live
Animation film | 2014
Funded by the Bauhaus Degree Completion Scholarship for students
In their animation film »To live«, the filmmakers Qianqian Zhang and Jingjing Lu tell the story of an entrepreneur whose company goes bankrupt as a result of the economic crisis. The desperate business man plunges into a state of complete hopelessness and decides to kill himself. He goes to the top of a skyscraper with the intention of throwing himself from it when he discovers a line of people waiting to do the same. A man standing behind him is in such a hurry to die that he offers the protagonist money to cut in front of him in the queue. While waiting for his turn to jump, the protagonist suddenly hits upon a new idea, which sparks new hope and he leaves the queue.