Minus Plus Multiply / 1920x1080, 4min 10 sec, 2023 / Digital Animation, Stop Motion, Live-action
A woman tries to find a place to fit in a weird world full of containers and eventually feels whole again.
With containers as a motif and a metaphor for a safe place, the story surrounds the protagonist's self-searching and healing journey, exploring the relationship between emotion and space. The film attempts to construct a poetic narrative and psychological self-portraits through experimentation in 2D animation, stop motion and sound. It reflects sensibility, fragility, and fragmentation of identity by applying pottery and clay.
- Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker - Arbor Film Festival, 2024
- Jury’s Choice Award - Edison Film Festival, 2024
- Bronze for Graduate Film - WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival
- Annecy International Animation Festival, Annecy France, 2024
- Animafest Zagreb 2024, Zagreb Croatia, 2024
- Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor USA, 2024
- Brighton International Animation Festival, Brighton UK, 2024
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Monstra Festival, Lisbon Portugal, 2024
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Thomas Edison Film Festival, Hoboken USA, Feb 2024
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Cardiff Animation Festival, Cardiff Wales, 2024
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Animation Dingle, Killarney Ireland, 2024
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Florida Film Festival, Florida USA, 2024
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Riverrun International Film Festival, Winston-Salem USA, 2024
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Dallas International Film Festival, Dallas USA, 2024
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Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival, Canada, 2024
- Maryland Film Festival, Maryland, USA, 2024
- Provincetown International Film Festival, USA, 2024
- DeadCenter Film Festival, USA, 2024
- Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, Tokyo Japan, 2024
- Guadalajara International Film Festival, Guadalajara Mexico, 2024
- La Guarimba , Amantea, Italy, 2024
3D Print
Direction/Design/Animation/Filming : Chu-Chieh Lee
Additional 2D Animator: Qian Shih
3D Modeller/ Rigger : Shao Kuei Tong
Colourist : Qian Shih, Sabine Volkert, Ben Alderman, Ava Tai
Clean-up Artist : Qian Shih, Jie-Yu Lien
Foley Artist : Rebecca Glover, Keith Partridge
Sound Designer : Arzu Saglam
Voice- Over : Arzu Saglam
Composer : Eleanor Fineston-Robertson
Sound mixer : Gibran Farrah
Produced at the RCA