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Bio: Yan Xiaoxiao，Xiaoxiao Yan, 生于80年代中后期，was born in the mid 1980s, 喜欢电影，音乐， likes cinema and music, 以及一切有意思的男人和女人。 as well, all those interesting women and man.
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November 26th, 2015
How Are You and How Were You
–My Parents and My Parents
It was thirty years ago. My parents got married, because in about 5 month, their daughter, me, would come to the world. Getting pregnant before marriage, my parents were hippies in the 80s’ China.
When my parents met, my mom was an actress for a type of traditional Chinese opera, called Yue Ju. She toured in the region of her hometown with a local troupe. And my dad, after several years of trying to enter the university, he finally gave up and opened a tailor shop. When they got married, my mom quitted her actress job and became a tailor as my dad. I’m glad that being an actress for a traditional local opera wasn’t a career my mom was pursuing, otherwise, this could become a sad story. Yes, I never hear her singing or playing any instrument. I believe the only reason for her to be an actress was that she was selected to be one, as she was good looking, and she still is.
In the picture, my dad in his early 20s was sitting on a sawing machine against the open window in their tailor shop. Not long after that, he went on a trip with his friends to the north of China, seeking opportunities to provide the family with a better life. During that time, my mom and the 3-year-old me, we become best friends. The two of us stayed in the tailor shop. In summer time, we would often go and visit an old couple living across a small pond, right behind a clump of bamboo; in the misty spring rain, we went to the field near a river and searched for the right herbs for hours to save our dying little chick; when it was snowing in the winter, we tied a small piece of stone to a wood stick and dip it to the snow—we called this game snow fishing, I could go snow fishing forever.
After about a year, my dad settled in a city in Inner Mongolia. After a short while, my mom and I took a train for a whole three days and join him. That is the story about my parents when they were in their early 20s, and I’m glad I was involved.
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About Me
December 22nd, 2014I love images, they show me another world.
Email: XiaoxiaoImages@gmail.com
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1 Item 3 Looks
December 22nd, 20141 Item 3 Looks – 3 Ways to Wear a Transparent Skirt (2013)
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Artist Profile: Julie Gemuend
December 22nd, 2014Artist Profile: Julie Gemuend (2010)
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How Do You Drink when You Are Drinking
December 18th, 2014How Do You Drink when You Are Drinking (2014)
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Don’t Step on the Bow
December 17th, 2014Don’t Step on the Bow (2007)
A short film about a superstation in a Chinese fishing village and thoughts of life.
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House of Fashion DNA
November 24th, 2014House of Fashion DNA Launch Video (2014)
A Co-op Video for the House of Fashion DNA during the Montreal
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Stills
August 1st, 2014
Some stills from a project that I am working on now. Thanks to my friend, the yoga teacher Justine Romanoff.
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How do You Eat when You are Eating
March 10th, 2014
How do You eat When you are Eating (2014)
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Break Up
January 12th, 2014Break Up (2014)
Experimental Documentary
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Quinceañera (2013)
October 8th, 2013Quinceañera (2013)
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Selected Works from Work III
August 8th, 2013
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I have been working with LifeStyleVideos.com since last winter. It was very fun creating the show 1 Item 3 Looks with Alexandra from beSleek (beSleek.com). I liked all her ideas and the one on the transparent skirt is my favourite.
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Promo Videos For Brock University
April 9th, 2013This is one of the videos created for Brock University ESL program, in summer, 2012.
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Karen’s Birthday
November 21st, 2012
Karen’s Birthday
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I am very glad that I started to get freelances in Montreal, and this is one of the gigs I enjoyed working on.
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Parham Yazdy – Come Close to Nature
November 14th, 2012Parham Yazdy–Come Close to Nature (2010)
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Home Videos
November 4th, 2012
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I moved to Montreal in September 2012 and I met those guys in my French class. It was in one of our classmates’ restaurant MakMak. We enjoyed the food, the place and the time we spend together, and we all love our French teacher Pascal.
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It’s summer, 2010. Those are my parents. I love my mom’s food. I love my parents way more than I love my mom’s food. My parents love me way way more than I love them.
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My nephew whose nick name is 小石头(little rock) reading an ancient Chinese poem. It was summer, 2010. I went back home and lived with my cousin’s family for about a week. My cousin in-law practicing Chinese calligraphy everyday, and his son recited all the poems he wrote down.
I love editing, because I love surprises.
Putting together all those random home-video footages is so much fun. No one was acting for any purpose, however a script comes out the same time when the final rendering finishes.
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Selected Works from Work II
June 20th, 2012
STRUTT 2011
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It was a very exciting segment. I wanted to cover STRUTT for the past two years, and finally got the chance to be the leading producer for the event this year. It was a bit stressful on the location, but I was really glad that it turned out well.
Chinese New Years Gala Performances
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It was my last year at Brock, only until when I started to connect with the other international students at Brock.
Artist Profiles: Julie Gemuend
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Artist Profiles: Yasaman Mehrsa
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Without any doubt, Artist Profiles is the show I enjoyed working on the most. I liked both of the girls’ works and the landscape of Canada. It was really fun to combine the two kinds of beautiful things together.
These are just a small part out of the videos that I have made at BrockTV, and I like all of the work that I have done. I feel very grateful that I got the chance to work at BrockTV for the past two years. I met most of my friends there, had a lot of fun, and for most, I had been doing what I love to do and got paid.
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Selected Works from Work
November 16th, 2011
Pre-Strutt 2011
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A Day In Our Life (Editor)
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It is only half way through November, and I am very happy that since this September I have made at least one video per week for Brocktv, and not only for one show, but in various categories. Beside that, the post-production job for my friend Lani’s film A Day in Our Life is almost done.
It is probably my last year of school, I am happy that I am having fun. And it may be the time for me to start my own show at Brocktv before I graduate.
P.S. As you can tell, I like cute guys. : P
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November 13th, 2011
How Are You and How Were You
-Dad and His Gang, and Dad and His Gang
These are my dad and his gang in the late 1980s. In the late 1980s, after the reform and opening-up policy carried out in 1979, private businesses are allowed to run in China. My dad was one of these young people who traveled to different cities around the country and was trying to seek the opportunities to start his own business during that time. I wish I could experience that era, it was the best time for young people.
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梦 | Nightmare
October 28th, 2011梦| Nightmare (2011)
Selected by In the Soil Arts Festival
An experimental short film about a dream, in which the girl dreams her childhood as well as the feelings of her love and jealous of her mother.
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