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Fluid States

A short fashion film about gender-fluid by telling a story of a boy's dream of Jiao Ren. 'Jiao Ren' is a fluid gender image with fishtail and the human body in Chinese mythology. Jiao Ren exists in the boy's dream, symbolized the boy's gender consciousness.

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The Sea

Lots of things in the universe have their definition; some are not.
When you describe the sea, it is vast and variable, endless and furious, turbulent, and foggy. It is formlessness, unfathomable, and chaos...

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Somebody

The short film, a collaboration with 22-year old Czech literary poet and model Bad’a Diaby, is an interpretation of one of her most important and powerful poems, Somebody. Shot over three days in Prague in the summer of 2020, the film also marks Diaby’s acting debut.

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Shadows Roses (trailer)

Shadows Roses is a visual representation of texts extracted from works by Ingeborg Bachmann. From the poems 'Shadows Roses' and 'Storm of roses' we create a dreamlike world that speaks about the search for the primal essence, the need for freedom and the confrontation with one's own ghosts.

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