Julie & I

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An anti-fashion film about two co-dependent friends living in a fantasy, with one of them sometimes taking it too far. Shot on super 16mm and 8mm film, it’s inspired by French New Wave and is a metaphor for co-dependent friendships that turn toxic for the same reasons that made them beautiful. It intentionally lifts a lot of imagery from pop and fashion films and videos, to create a visual post-modern landscape crafted from contemporary tastes. The goal is to also comment on some of today’s over-obsession on aesthetics also going a little too far for the same reasons that make them so beautiful.

Director Statement

The goal was to make a fashion-inspired short film with strong cinematic influences.

Waley Wang

Waley Wang is a Chinese-American filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. His directing focuses on stylized, poppy aesthetics with a heart, as well as a fascination with dark drama, absurd comedy, and the metaphysical. He is currently in postproduction for music videos for Brooklyn-based artists Cool Company and Brooklyn-based Voir.

Before directing, he worked as a corporate ghost writer, lit projects with subjects like Forrest Whittaker and Luis Guzman, and managed commercials for Chinese brands like Huawei and Bosideng.

He enjoys searching for the ever-obscuring experiences and uncultivated identity of being Chinese American, as well as the uncaptured humanity of being a young millennial / old gen z-er.