话说浑沌 The Story of Chaos is a paper and plasticine stop-motion animation that retells the legend of Chaos from the revered Chinese text, Zhuangzi.
In a modern classroom, a student learns of the gathering of Chaos and the Emperors of the Northern and Southern seas. She reads the ancient text aloud to her class. Yet, beneath the watchful eyes of her teacher, her imaginative wanderings are curbed. There can be no mistakes in her narration, no tangents to traverse, and no revisions to the tale. She fumbles to keep her teacher’s corrective influence at bay and loses sight of her chaos within.
The Story of Chaos explores the stifling effects that education can have and offers, in turn, a hopeful antidote.
The haunting pressure from social media is growing stronger. But this may not be a threat. Through the use of paper cut stop motion, the story between an individual and the pressure from the internet community will be portrayed.
Stop motion is poetry in action (in this case, quite literally). In An Instant is an exploration of the pitfalls of the digital age, in particular our addiction to instantaneity and immediacy. Our relationships and connections take place through a screen as we continuously scroll to refresh our feeds. The film illustrates how an online reality affects our real world presence, and could possibly even overtake it. Presented through the form of pixels, symbols and icons, we get a glimpse into how fundamental digital screens are to our lives in this day and age.
