Wei Jiao - A Surrealist Filmmaker's Journey

A Filmmaker's Journey: From My World to Yours.

I am an enthusiastic filmmaker and theatre director, who merges conventional storytelling with certain surrealist conventions in order to patently blurry or even erase the boundaries between reality and dreams. My great passion for surrealist cinema in response to the concept of “lucid dreams” is drawn upon his overseas experience in the U.S. For me, surrealism is not a simple attitude that encourages the collapse of logic and rational thinking, but rather than a state between clarity and ambiguity, between reality and illusory imagination, and between consciousness and unconsciousness. Just like lucid dreaming. Having progressively become an Iceberg theorist, I believe the audience will see only what is above the water, but the knowledge they have about the story and the characters forms the greater portion of the iceberg under the water. That is what gives my films weight and value.