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Minus Plus Multiply / 1920x1080, 4min 10sec, 2023 / 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.


Awards

  • The Special Distinction of the Jury - Insomnia Int’l 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
  • Insomnia 2024 - The Special Distiction of the Jury

Festival Selections

  • 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


Film Stills


Character Design
3D Print

Credit



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

                     


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