After working with Ulrikon his action film project a few weeks back, I bumped into him again last Wednesday in Berlin on the set of the new German TV show "Lasko" , where he's in charge of the "Making Of" and the camera work of the fight sequences.
Actually, it says in my contract with the production company that I'm not supposed to divulge any details regarding the plot and such (or they'll fine me Read more
AT LAST!!! After my departure from China in March and 2 long months of waiting & networking I finally had my first stunt job in Germany last weekend.
The plan was to shoot the first 10 minutes of filmmaker Ulrik Brucholz's new & still untitled action movie project , which is set in parts in Germany & the Mediterranean island of Malta.
It was an extremely cool shoot, since near...Read more
After boring you guys with all those intricate & nerdy movie reviews, I guess it's time to get back to more serious business again.
Some interesting stunt jobs are coming up next month and I shall definitely keep you posted on that... but in the meantime I'd like to squeeze in a little update on my aforementioned artsy-fartsy photo novel project with Shanghai-based photographer Marten von Rauschenberg .
While I was in Hong Kong in March, I met up with
Some of you may have browsed my photo albums on this page. In the album "PTU File - Death Trap"are two stills of a young actress credited as Hanabi Kim 金妍智 . Her real name was Tan Jing and sometimes she would call herself Tracy. In one capture I wrote: "Whateve...Read more
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After a long break,I’ve eventually managed to come up with the second installment of my ramblings on Mainland Chinese Wushu flicks of the 80’s.
This time I would like to introdu...Read more
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I’d like to kick off this sentimental journey through the history of the 1980s Wushu cinema w...Read more
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Every martial artist has their own unique story of how they became addicted to the sport. As with most guys of my generation, my first big influence was Bruce Lee. Nothing extraordinary here. My poor mom had to take me to every single Bruce Lee picture that came to town, even the phony ones (back then, minors still had to be...Read more
Choreographing a Comic Book
During the past few months I have been working on and off with German photographer Marten von Rauschenberg on one of his art projects here in Shanghai. My job in this venture is basically that of an action choreographer/martial arts consultant.
Today I got a first batch of pics from our initial test shoot and I'd like to take the opportunity to introduce this cool little project to you here on my blog. I hope you'll enjoy it.Read more
Anyone browsing this website frequently is bound to notice that the number of martial artists (namely Wushu athletes), stunt performers, and action actors on this site is growing day by day. Increasingly, young stunt guys & Wushu aficionados from western countries with a gusto forprefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /Hong Kongstyle action flicks are giving some serious thought to working and living inChina. prefix = ...Read more
Writing this feels kinda strange, 'cause I'm actually a first-timer when it comes to blogging. I'd never thought I'd do this, but I got an invite from my stunt buddy & fellow actor Ian Powers (Heng Li 恒力), I checked out the site and I really think this is an extremely cool project.
So, hey, I'm a blogger now!
To be honest, the only thing I happened to know about blogs is that frustrated actresses use them as a means to reveal their sexual escapades with (in-)famous directors to a...Read more