Black

Director: Ao Chen

Year: 2022

A big head baby, one of the numerous victims of the white melamine-tainted milk powder incidents caused by the Sanlu (Three Deer) Group Co. Ltd in China, witnesses such nightmarish pain and sinks into with other babies the abyss of horror and despair. Official Selection Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2022 – PÖFF Shorts Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2023

Director: Ao Chen

Year: 2019

Traditional Chinese art forms including ink wash painting and ceramics are used to represent and rethink Red China. Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2019 - Perspectives Short Film Competition

Director: Tatiana Collet Apraxine

Year: 2028

You awaken on a fog-shrouded shoreline and meet Echo, a strange child with a hole in their stomach. Together you cross a lantern festival where the veil between worlds is thinnest, sail into an ocean that opens beneath you, and descend through a portal into the Underworld. The Underworld moves through different facets of grief: a rave where silhouettes dance in slow motion, indifferent to Echo's attempts to reach them; a frozen sea where giant statues crack open to release a buried memory of a lost mother; a shadow theatre where an anger monster is unleashed, reducing everything to embers. From the embers, a boat carries you into a vast darkness, where Mother appears, and they are finally reunited. You sail together to the Tree of Life, a bioluminescent, cosmic jungle. Echo begs her to return to the World of the Living, but ancestors appear and surround you. She cannot come back - the journey was never about bringing her back. Echo, revealed to be your own child self, dissolves around you as the hole fills with light.