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De-Chuen Wu & Yi-Ping Cheng
De-Chuen Wu:
Most of his animations are inspired from personal experience. Many of his works were nominated for awards and won the best animation in 2010 Taipei Film Festival and “A piece of cake” was nominated for 2010 Golden Horse Awards. His recent work “The Magical Tracing” won 2021 Best Animation Shorts.
VR production
2021 Mirror ｜VR FILM LAB OF Kaohsiung Film Archive
2021 Alice on the beach｜MOD VR First award
Yi-Ping Cheng:
Yi Ping works as a producer and a project coordinator. Since 2017, she has been working as a coordinator in documentary shorts, animation short films, VR projects, and film festivals as programme coordinators. Continuously absorbing international experiences and nourishment, She uses her communication strengths to assist local creators with ambition to connect with the international scene. In the past two years, She has delved into VR production and documentary filmmaking in the following works: Director Wu De-chuen's 2022 'Alice on the beach', 2023 'Mirror', and Director Pan Zhi-Wei's 'Maro’ay to ko kerah: Home’. The latest VR Animation short Mirror was presented at the Venice Gap-Financing Market. Now she’s participating in various project development projects, such as 2024 Serial Bridge Development Workshop selected “All right” series, “My cursed 25” series development project.
Artwork
Mirror
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Life is a show. By a colossal sculpture of the nature creation, a motherless tin boy sits boredly on a toilet, catching a glimpse of his father engaging in sordid affairs with other women. The story tells about three tin toys, revolving around three generations, each bearing a resemblance to one another, as they inevitably confront family conflicts. Among them, the male members are rushed by the relentless time, growing into the "adults" they once despised, as if trapped in a mirror reflection, unable to break themselves free. Deeply controlled in their roles, they forget their own expressions and movements, losing their own shadows beneath their feet and the images in the mirror. They are unaware of being entangled in the control of whose dreams, memories, or ideals. In the end, they only faintly remember the gentleness that once existed in the image of their mothers.
