Minus Plus Multiply / 1920x1080, 4min 10sec, 2023-2024 / Digital Animation, Stop Motion
A woman tries to find a place to fit in a weird world full of containers and eventually feels whole again.
With containers as a motif and a metaphor for a safe place, the story surrounds the protagonist's self-searching and healing journey, exploring the relationship between emotion and space. The film attempts to construct a poetic narrative and psychological self-portraits through experimentation in 2D animation, stop motion and sound. It reflects sensibility, fragility, and fragmentation of identity by applying pottery and clay.
Production Year : 2023
Premiere Year : 2024
- Animation Festival of Roanne 2025 - Experimental Grand Prix
- Golden Horse Awards 2024 - Nomination
- Golden Harvest Awards 2025 - Nomination
- The Special Distinction of the Jury - Insomnia Int’l Animation Festival 2024
- Taiwan Special Award - Kuandu International Animation Festival 2024
- Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker - Ann Arbor Film Festival, 2024
- Jury’s Choice Award - Thomas Edison Film Festival, 2024
- Bronze for Graduate Film - WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival
- Imaginaria Animated Film Festival - Best Short Film / Graduation Film
- Annecy International Animation Festival, France, 2024
- Animafest Zagreb 2024, Croatia, 2024
- Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA, 2024
- Brighton International Animation Festival, UK, 2024
- Monstra Festival, Portugal, 2024
- Thomas Edison Film Festival, USA, Feb 2024
- Cardiff Animation Festival, Wales, 2024
- Animation Dingle, Ireland, 2024
- Florida Film Festival, USA, 2024
- Riverrun International Film Festival, USA, 2024
- Dallas International Film Festival, USA, 2024
- Toronto International Nollywood Film Festival, Canada, 2024
- Maryland Film Festival, USA, 2024
- Provincetown International Film Festival, USA, 2024
- DeadCenter Film Festival, USA, 2024
- Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia, Japan, 2024
- Guadalajara International Film Festival, Mexico, 2024
- La Guarimba, Italy, 2024
- Raindance Film Festival, UK, 2024
- Film Maudit 2.0, USA, 2024
- Regina International Film Festival and Awards, Canada, 2024
- SUPERTOON International Animation and Comics Festival, Croatia, 2024
- Insomnia International Open-Air Animation Festival, Russian, 2024
- Imaginaria International Animation Festival, Italy, 2024
- Anibar International Animation Festival, Kosova, 2024
- Bolton International Film Festival, UK, 2024
- Flickers’ Rhode Island Int’l Film Festival, USA, 2024
- Pixelatl International Festival, Mexico, 2024
- Taichung International Animation Festival, Taiwan, 2024
- Big Catoon Festival, Russian, 2024
- Playground In Motion Rotterdam & London, 2024
- Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada, 2024
- Kuandu International Animation Festival, Taiwan, 2024
- Norwich Film Festival, UK, 2024
- Manchester Animation Festival, UK, 2024
- New Hampshire Film Festival, USA, 2024
- Feinaki Beijing Animation Week, China, 2024
- Primanima World Festival of First Animations, Hungary, 2024
- Santa Fe International Film Festival, USA, 2024
- Animation Festival of Roanne - Ciné court animé, France, 2025
- Golden Horse Film Festival, Taiwan, 2024
- British Short Berlin, Germany, 2025
- Golden Harvest Awards/ Film Festival, Taiwan, 2025
3D Print
Direction/Design/Animation/Filming : Chu-Chieh Lee
Additional 2D Animator: Qian Shih
3D Modeller/ Rigger : Shao Kuei Tong
Colourist : Qian Shih, Sabine Volkert, Ben Alderman, Ava Tai
Clean-up Artist : Qian Shih, Jie-Yu Lien
Foley Artist : Rebecca Glover, Keith Partridge
Sound Designer : Arzu Saglam
Voice- Over : Arzu Saglam
Composer : Eleanor Fineston-Robertson
Sound mixer : Gibran Farrah
Produced at the RCA