White (Bai)

Director: Ao Chen

Year: 2020

An expression and examination of the social problem of black-hearted vaccines that are spreading in China. Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2020 - Off-Limits Short Films in Competition

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.