RPM Festival Presents Lost and Found: Lei Lei

Intro and Discussion with Lei Lei & Jinying Li

RPM Festival and The Brattle Theater are proud to co-present LEI LEI: Lost and Found , a comprehensive screening of seven remarkable films spanning from 2013 to 2025. Born in 1985, Lei Lei has garnered global acclaim for his unique method of collage and filmmaking, which fuses science-fiction & comic books and arcade games to create or recreate handmade, hand-colored universes. His compelling visual style often draws from a vast archive of found and ready-made images, including abandoned visuals, oral histories, fragmented online videos, commercial product catalogs, and folklore. By re-contextualizing these diverse sources, Lei Lei weaves together visual poetry and prose, turning everyday, historical artifacts and discarded materials into transformative cinematic experiences.

This program offers a rare chance to experience the evolution of his artistic vision over a decade. Known for his mastery of animation, film and video installation, Lei Lei’s works have been exhibited at prominent international venues, such as the UCCA in Beijing, Shanghai’s OCAT Art Museum, Tokyo’s TOP Museum, and the Rencontres d’Arles International Photography Festival in France. His video installations have been widely celebrated, with his works also collected by esteemed institutions and galleries across the globe.

Lei Lei’s films have been selected for prestigious festivals, earning recognition at the Berlinale, IFFR Rotterdam, New York MoMA’s New Films/New Directors series, the Melbourne International Film Festival, and the Hong Kong International Film Festival, among others. His films often blur the line between documentary and fiction, stillness and movements, using humor, parody, and a deep understanding of visual culture to craft family oral history that are both intellectually stimulating and emotionally resonant.

Revolutions per Minute Festival (RPM Fest) is dedicated to short-form poetic, personal, experimental film, essay film, animation, documentary, video and audiovisual performance, and is co-hosted by Art and Art History Department and Cinema Studies at UMass-Boston, Brattle Theatre in Cambridge & Harvard FAS CAMLab.

Tickets: $15 General Public, $13 Members, Students, and Seniors. Brattle Passes Not Accepted

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