Project Detail

All Trace is Gone, No Clamour for a Kiss

Synopsis

In a nondescript forest, two exiled individuals are about to reincarnate into the next life while striking up an intimate conversation on family legends, collective histories, love tales and folklore. The dialogue between the two characters appears only on screen, as the film is led by a sonic narrative – a score composed for the work by British trumpeter Kevin G. Davy. Juxtaposing analogue film and digital animation, the film collapses notions of time and space. The project explore queerness, migration, and colonial ghosts haunting relations amongst China, West Africa and the Caribbean past and now, drawing from both personal and historical perspectives.
Official Selection International Film Festival Rotterdam 2023 - World premiere

Details

Year: 2022
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 21 min 52 sec
Director: Chris Zhongtian Yuan
Producer: Chris Zhongtian Yuan
Executive Producer: Pinky Ghundale
Editor: Chris Zhongtian Yuan
Screenwriter: Chris Zhongtian Yuan
Director of Photography: Bea Macdonald
Production Designer: Chris Zhongtian Yuan
Sound: Olukemi Lijadu
Composer: Kevin G. Davy
Principal cast: Ella Frost, Huiqi He, Jiaying Kou

Genre

Experimental

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Chris Zhongtian Yuan

c/o Film London

info@filmlondon.com

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