Super ancient creatures, tempting devils, greedy human, women's fixed fate. A fairy tale or a prophecy? Wake up. It's your time.
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Super ancient creatures, tempting devils, greedy human, women's fixed fate. A fairy tale or a prophecy? Wake up. It's your time.
Adam Wan, a homosexual young man who grown up in Hong Kong, trying hard to fight for rights of LGBT community, realising difficulties when achieving such goal, including conflicts with his father. He found frustration with his surroundings, thinking about how everything ended up in current societal situation. He begins to re-examine the society he lives in, his family, himself.
The story follows a gray bear who ventures from the forest searching for a more fulfilling life in the city. She makes a concerted effort to imitate human actions and conceal her true self, worried about being uncovered. One day, a small bee flies into her house, unknowingly marking the beginning of her journey to escape her struggles.
This is a story about facing the challenges of a changing era. In a world where martial arts have lost their value due to the arrival of alien technology, martial artists become marginalized. The protagonist, Blacky, a black cat with a mechanical arm, seeks revenge for his slain master. Determined to confront enemies equipped with alien tech, Blacky uses traditional martial arts. Amidst challenges and obstacles, he strives to find his own worth and redefine the meaning of martial arts in a transforming society.
baby lets take it slow. enjoy a 24hrs sex.
Waking up on time. Starting work on time. Leaving the office on time. Having meals on time. Going to sleep on time. He works in a micro space station on a tiny moon orbiting a mega planet, day after day, night after night. Is it real? Is it life? He never thinks about questions like these until she shows up. She wants to disrupt his routine. She tries to short-circuit him. Why does she want to do that? Can she succeed in saving him from this loop?
Translating and encapsulating the director's personal childhood experiences as well as past lived experiences, You build a home in my mind comprises of playground rides, the everyday scenery outside the window of the artist's studio, and unique, special objects recalled from memories—weaving together a melody that lures the viewers to roam and wander. As the boat navigates between reality and imagination, resembling a journey of constant loss and persistent search, the scenes become slightly different when they reappear, these scenes alluding to the repetitiveness and uncertainty of life.
An exploration of various landform’s conditions of uncertainty, focusing on the outlines of objects and transformations between each still through edge detection technique.
Miller Fisher amalgamates the distorted visual, physical and existential experience of an autoimmune disorder by the same name, with the aesthetics and vernacular of the animated GIF.
The story of an impotent husband, unsatisfied wife and a megalomaniac policeman, illustrating the perfect ecosystem of the concrete jungle, where these characters are able to truly face their lust with no moral laws.
A cramped environment with all kinds of restrictions shapes Hong Kong into a square city. Perhaps life is impoverished, oppressive, and the actuality is being difficult to change. Yet, Bong hasn't lost his imagination of birds soaring high in the sky, and has still retained his longing for wonderful things.
Once upon a time on a deserted parking lot, in a galaxy far far away, everything turns rainbow, rainbow, and rainbow...
It is a 2D experimental animation which is accompanied by the music, “Pulse At The Centre Of Being” composed by Max Cooper. Beautiful things happened inside a human through different combinations of flowers, organs and body parts.
Fung, a girl who grew up in the old Hong Kong public housing, was having her last year in the primary school. The old estate was about to demolished and rebuilt, neighbors and friends were leaving gradually. Although Fung knew this would happen, she could not let go of the feeling of parting. One day, in this fading homeland, Fung made a special friend.
“Elephant in Castle” is created within the context of two strange years, 2019 and 2020. The work expresses a constant change within Florence’s inner world, to express the emotional, aesthetic, and tactile responses that she has to Hong Kong, the city where she grew up. The film is both a reflection on the political and social changes in the city and an attempt to understand the relationship between city, place and the individual.
This is a set of pre-show animations commissioned by M+ Museum. Inspired by Shek Kip Mei Park, Shatin's cycling track and M+ Museum, this work captures Hong Kong's unique cityscape.
An office worker’s encounters with a caterpillar unlock childhood memories, looping through time, blending the mundane and the magical.
A three minutes, 2D animation film, about the protest in Hong Kong. A group of Hong Kong people protesting against the extradition law amendment bill, concerned the bill will damage Hong Kong’s autonomy.
“Human race will just surrender to fear by betraying our true feeling.” – Taizo Kato. The value and happiness of people should not be built on others. If you try to find someone to complete your life, your self-value will become dependent on others and will feel incomplete when you lose this person.
A disturbing story set in the near future. People are holed up in their small dwellings and live in a virtual world. Everyone films and streams various videos. They don’t have a clue that they’re not free until one of them goes outside. But the discovery of the outer reality is something their virtual masters aren’t happy to see.
Ma and his friends trace a sea monster from a fairy tale they heard on the floating island.
This is the reminiscence of two souls, narrating in memory their own truths and fantasies of their stories together.
After a row over a TV remote control, Uncle Tung accidentally kills his nephew…?!
Tugging Diary documents a footbridge over a year between August 2019 to January 2021. Due to social unrest and the uncertainty of various immediate happenings, both the internet and physical spaces act as critical communication platforms of its own during this period. As such, information can be circulated in the community more widely and rapidly outside of the existing mainstream media. As time goes by, these materials are continuously altered, some were renewed, while the others were removed, covered with paint, or overlaid by other information.
The Screen Shaver starts shaving every inch of his hairy body, but saves the stache.
A vibrant watercolour dance, fireflies glowing in the darkness.
A visit to the art museum produces lessons aplenty for mind, body and especially all the little souls.
Four rooms, four memories. The son steps into a tunnel of recollection during a visit to his long-absent father in prison. Pushing open door after door, he attempts to rediscover the visage of his father within these rooms of memory.
The film portrays the author's fear of how Hong Kong has changed and how she faces her emotions. It feels like the soul is broken into many pieces, but if we survive, depths of night will eventually pass.
"sub vid heap" is a visceral and compositional study on domination, shot a year after the birth of a first child. An exhausted ego and a needy id, the sensory and the lingual, desire and duty, horror and humility vie it out in a haunted hall. Captured at Headlands Center for the Arts, screams of a baby are muted out while the process of portraiture claims space for a body craving autonomy. Actions of pushing, vacuuming and rocking conjure the rickety bones of downtrodden ancestors, calling the laboring body from the periphery to the center, moving the rage through the body for joy to inhabit the space it vacates.
Following a morphing blob of flesh through an artificial landscape of urban textures we take part in a process of creation and adaption. From a simple square to increasingly complex moving patterns, the organic seems to get lost in the artificial which begins to dominate rhythm and structure of the world.
One day in the 70s, at the Northern New Territories. Under the brazing sun, the sound of cicadas intertwined with the rotten smell near the train tracks. The five youngsters could not dismiss the summer blues. They pushed the weeds and stepped on the squirming maggots. They found a decaying dead body trapped under the burning sun. It was oozing a foul stench. They covered their nose and vomited. Hearing the train whined, the youngsters made up their minds. Even though they did not have much, they answered the call from the syrup and caffeine. They added colour to their lives with a pinch of salt onto the transparent White Cloud, and they dashed in full strength and leaped up.
We can see things differently when we see things from different angles.
A young boy’s erotic fixation with a classmate boasting breasts on her back.
I have lost my interest in any kind of social activities after my nose left me.
Appearance, hormone, sex appeal. When we are tired of everything about these, all we want to do is break, demolish, and destroy. With crazy cut-out animation, this film is trying to release us with the strong beat of the song and search for revenge in a chaotic but unique world.
Prehistoric men compete in a downhill race.
A monochrome composition of dynamic shapes and patterns comes to light and to life.
It’s confronting to step into the unknown. Reassurance or validation is sought from anywhere we can find it; at least for that bit confidence to move forward. Building on experiences, exploring new environments, adapting to the unfamiliar, all becomes part and parcel of progress. But what if it all gets too much? Finding yourself and fitting in, compromise and keeping up? Sometimes you just need to pull yourself out of it, appreciate the people around you, and enjoy every moment. Because life should be more uplifting.
Created in quarantine. How to turn a stressful situation into something playful.
A day in the life of a building. Busy people, curiosity and incomprehension.
This animation is about something different that happened to a sad baker who only baked for money one day. The baker saw a girl who looked hungry and offered her a piece of bread for free. She was delighted and smiled with joy. Later, the baker realized that his bread could help people and that money might not be as important as he thought. From that day on, he began to bake bread for free and give it to people in need. Happiness fills his mind as people smile at his kindness; caring for others heals everyone's hearts.
FLY TRAIN uses shadow play and experimental visuals to explore time and memory. During an ordinary journey, thoughts drift between scenery and fragmented memories, caught in dreams. Everyday silhouettes transform into the surreal, diving into a poetic stream of consciousness.
With the abundance of antiques and culture in Jordan, you can only see so much of the essence of traditional craftsmanship in a blink of an eye. This film showcases the beauty of old Hong Kong, all in a glimpse of textiles, flasks, paintings and statuettes.
Completed before Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests of 2019, the dark turns taken in the lives of an ex-activist vegetarian cow and a three-headed rabbit show what may have caused tensions to boil over.
Abstract 2D hand-drawn animation using jazz music
Moving from planetary surfaces to deep space, mysterious shapes and spheres guide exploration and slowly return to the surface.
A lively world under a microscope where different microorganisms are born, mating and decaying.
The girl’s hair is tied in braids by her mother every morning. The rigorous woman believes the tighter the braids are, the tighter the mother-daughter bond is. So, the little girl lives with the achy, throbbing feeling from her scalp and tries to understand this painful love. Actually, there is a little fantasy in her mind which is never mentioned or carried out, until an accident happens…
Constructed in the form of an eye test/observational diagnosis, Localized Blindness is a semi-autobiographical video that documents several internal monologues: What is left after the passing of an individual? It's between me - an individual who witnessed consecutive passings; another me - an observational being who observed the changes of my accompany and the surrounding; and the other voices, all that echo the distance between the subject and the outsider.
How would monkeys behave if they had access to social media and the internet? A black monolith falls into the Stone Age world and wakes up a monkey. Through the monolithic screen, will he discover how his species colonized the Earth in a parallel world?
:< A Tinder tragedy. :0 An unexpected child. ;( A journey finding my root of shame.
Stop Peeping tells the story of a man who repeatedly breaks into his neighbors apartment, so he can wring out her sweaty clothes to make ice lollies. Amusing, perverse and...refreshing?
The directors majored in MA Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong. When directing TAIKWUN (2022), they used the photos taken in Tai Kwun as the material for animation creation. They are committed to exploring different animation possibilities from ordinary materials and textures, and at the same time, they also use animation to interpret and explore different urban characteristics. For the materials they have, they carry out creative interpretations on the basis of taking care of the historical significance of the materials themselves.
Colors explores the bright and vibrant colors in the Central neighborhood. A glimpse of tension was found between the concrete and lines.
A stunning piece of imagined night cartography rendered in an intricately crafted digital filigree.
Exploring concepts of fluidity and rigidity through monochromatic, crystalline visuals, delving into the emotional turmoil a wanderer has to engage with when grappling with the ideas of going against the flow.