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You Are Not Part of The Cake

Black and white line drawing depicting a girl dancing around a cake that made of a man's body.

Synopsis

A girl, Ping, faces conflict with her girlfriend Lala's homophobic and aggressive father. As tensions escalate, Ping is forced to take action to save herself and kills him. Then she makes him into a cake. This act becomes a ritual of transformation - a severing of ties, a step into anew phase of life.
Official Selection London International Animation Festival 2025
Official Selection London Short Film Festival 2026
Official Selection Kaboom Animation Festival 2026

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Details

Year: 2025
Type of project: Shorts
Running time: 4 min 33 sec
Format: Digital
Director: Ting-Jui Chen
Editor: Ting-Jui Chen
Screenwriter: Ting-Jui Chen
Sound: Huang Ren-Yu
Composer: Huang Ren-Yu
Voice Cast: Pei-Shan Wu, Chu-Hsuan Lee

Genre

Asian Comedy Experimental Horror LGBTQIA+

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Royal College of Art

Kensington Gore
South Kensington
London
SW7 2EU

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Ting-Jui Chen

https://ting-jui-chen.com/short-films

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