May 2007 - Film to be screened: “The Missing Marionette – 7’07” at Int’l Fest of Cinema & Technology at UK, USA and Canada

April 2007 - Film to be screened: “The Missing Marionette – 7’07” at Aarhus Festival of Independent Arts, Denmark

January 2007 - Film screened: “The Missing Marionette – 7’07” at Premiers Plans Festival, Paris

October 2006 - Film screened: “The Insomniacs - 4’40” at Sefton Short Film Festival, Liverpool

January 2006 - Film screened: “The Insomniacs - 4’40” at Halloween Short Film Festival, Curzon Soho; “Simon” 7’06” at ICA

November 2005 - Film – “Skia - 4’20” exhibited at Future Map Exhibition (annual exhibition showcasing highlights of the year’s graduate shows from five colleges that make up University of the Arts London)


"The Missing Marionette" is on YouTube now!

Leaflet design for costume designer - Julia Kalache

Self-Portrait

Experimental work for "The Missing Marionette"

Filmography

1. The Missing Marionette (2006, 7'07"), MA graduation film
2. Simon (2006, 7'06") -------- screened at Halloween Short Film Festival, January 2006 @ ICA)
3. Dance in fish dream 1 (2005, 3'54")
4. Dance in fish dream 2 (2005, 3'48")
5. Skia (2005, 4'20") BA graduation film (chosen by Future Map Exhibition - annual exhibition showcasing highlights of the year’s graduate shows from five colleges that make up University of the Arts London)
6. The Insomniacs (2005, 4'40"), BA graduation film --------- screened at Halloween Short Film Festival, January 2006 @ Curzon Soho)
7. The Wandering Jew (2004, 4'54")

The Missing Marionette (2006, 7'07"), MA graduation film







Synopsis

My animation “The Missing Marionette” is a story that deals with relationship between desire, control and freedom. A desire to control others sometimes develops from being under control.

I’m interested in telling a surreal story in a poetic way. My animation was inspired by Kafka’s writings. Kafka’s narrative is a non-stop developing process, from start to end, like a swinging pendulum. Time and space are modulated, dissolving or in question. His elusive text set up a strange mystery. There are things that move you deeply because you can’t trap them down. They’re beautiful in their elusiveness. I love fragmentation in Kafka’s writings. Because fragmentation is the way our memory works, we can never remember all the details of things happened many years ago, but those fragments and details surface, make us remember, ring a bell in your mind, a smell, a melody, a sound, a pattern, a colour… and that can be vivid and strong.

“The Missing Marionette” a story about a Chinese doll who owns a magic orange. One day she dropped into a well. A puppeteer changed her into a marionette and made her perform on stage for years. Every night the puppeteer connects the doll to a fish. The doll can only have fish dreams. One night, her magic orange came back into her dream. Finally the doll successfully escaped during one performance and trapped the puppeteer ¬by using her magic orange. She trapped the innocent fish at the same time, now she becomes the one who is in control.

Simon (2006, 7'06") -------- screened at Halloween Short Film Festival, January 2006 @ ICA

Dance in fish dream 1 (2005, 3'54")

Dance in fish dream 2 (2005, 3'48")

Skia (2005, 4'20") BA graduation film (chosen by Future Map Exhibition - annual exhibition showcasing highlights of the year’s graduate shows from five colleges that make up University of the Arts London)

The Insomniacs (2005, 4'40"), BA graduation film --------- screened at Halloween Short Film Festival, January 2006 @ Curzon Soho)

The Wandering Jew (2004, 4'54")

3D Installation
------ What a fish dreams about in a rainy day?






The Fool's Journey
----Drawing on bottles

Wake up in a strange place...

I can eat an apple and still have it.

Animatics about shadow


Set Design for "The Missing Marionette"

Waste My Life ---- A illustrated story about a weather doll's life:

I'm a weather doll. Tree of waste is where I live.
I was hanged here by someone to pray for good weather.
My body is void.
And I'm fed up with my boring life.
My life is wasted in spring.
My life is wasted in summer.
My life is wasted in autumn.
My life is wasted in winter.
I have only one friend (a spider).
I asked him: "Can I become something else?"
"OK. What I can do is to entwine you into a cocoon. When comes spring, you will change into something else. But I have no idea what you will become..."
Endless waiting..........
Day and night.........
One day I wake up. The cocoon starts to break.
I find myself have eight legs and I can walk around now.
Everyone tells me an octopus belongs to the sea.
So I travel a long journey from my tree to the sea.
I'm not happy deep in the sea.
Do I really belong to this place?
Until one day, I discovered a tree of waste in the sea!
I feel like I'm home. All I want to do now is to be hanged here as a weather doll and waste the rest of my life...




Soulless


I can't close my eyes. Therefore I'm sleepless. Therefore I'm dreamless.


Void is growing...