Experimental film and video in China is quite young, but already artists there are doing sophisticated work. This new work grows out of experience, and draws on a rich aesthetic tradition that is energized by new media and forms. Sun Xun's A Lie of Magician (2005, 5 mins, Color) asks whether “lies” about history told by a magician are actually close to the real story. In Qiu Anxiong's animation In the Sky (2005, 8 mins, B&W), ink-drawn mountains and sugarplum fairies morph into locusts, rats, and pollution. In Blind Sweet (2003, 25 mins, B&W/Color), Liang Yue draws viewers into her dreamlike daily life. Denis Zhu trains the camera on a peasant who has never seen a camera before in The Distance of 13 Minutes and 5 Seconds (2003, 13 mins, Color). Yang Fudong's Backyard. Hey, Sun is Rising! (2000, 13 mins, B&W, Music by Zhou Qing, Courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery, New York) features four men who practice an elaborate dance that interweaves martial arts, murderous dreams, and urban space. A flag-waving frenzy is intercut with provocative imagery in The Red Flag Flies (Zhou Hongxiang, 2002, 25 mins, In Chinese with English subtitles, Color).