Experimental Animation
Wu-Ching Chang
Born in Taiwan, Wu-Ching Chang earned an MA. Animation at Royal College of Art in the UK and an BFA in New Media Art at the Taipei National University of the Arts in Taiwan. She has worked as the concept artist and cinematic artist for the game Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition. She has worked as a freelance animator and illustrator since 2010. The clients and collaborators include TECO Electric & Machinery, Sinyi Realty, and Kirin Design Studio, etc.
Her animation short film 'Bird' won the Hand Painted Animated Shorts Award at Palm Springs Int. Animation Festival in the USA, and the film has been selected on 22 international film festivals. Her experimental short film ’The Impermanent Sea’ won the Best Multimedia Film Award at Global India International Film Festival in India. Her animation short film 'Mother' won the quality award. in K. T. Creativity Award and the best visual effects award in 4C Digital Content Awards, and the film has been selected on 18 international film festivals.
Wu-Ching Chang is an animation director, concept artist and illustrator who creates animation and illustration by exploring personal experience and female issues. Her animation films are often based on hand-made visual textures.
Her animated films are often based on documentary and historical context by doing interviews and research in the pre-production stage. Except for 2D animation with hand-painted visual style, her visual narrative contains multiple experimental materials practice, such as over painting on historical archives, animating with egg white, and creating stop motion animation with cotton and beads. Through visual art, she tells stories about life.
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My grandmother was a T'ung-yang-his. She has lived up to her fate.
T'ung-yang-his is the traditional practice of pre-arranged marriage, selling a young girl to another family to be raised as a future daughter-in-law. This tradition of T'ung-yang-hsi has vanished for decades, but the patriarchal shadow still lingers. This film reflects the patriarchy and women's oppression in Taiwan. Trying to be true to the documentary and historical context, it is done by doing interviews and research in the pre-production stage.
From microscopic to macroscopic, from personal witness to general phenomenon in society, the audiences may glimpse the long past, imagine women's oppression in our own times, and look forward to striving for real gender equality in the future.
Director: Wu-Ching Chang
Producer: Wu-Ching Chang
Screenwriter: Wu-Ching Chang
Art Director: Wu-Ching Chang
Animator: Wu-Ching Chang
Editor: Wu-Ching Chang
Sound Designer: Wu-Ching Chang, Markus Andreas, Nahum Strickland
Composer: Nahum Strickland
Sound Mixer: Markus Andreas
Animation assistant: Lok Yi Tsoi, Bouchra Fadil
Voice: Yung Yu Chang, Yu Lin Chang, Chang Yu Chin, Yu Fen Chang
The song 'Old Mountain Song' in the film, with permission from The Hakka Affairs Council in Taiwan.
Medium:
2D Computer Animation, Stop Motion Animation, Object Animation, Cutout AnimationSize:
7'56"
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Through interview with people experienced panic attack and ornithophobia in pre-production stage, the director aim to bring out core issues of life, death and fear. The film is a collaborative project with the Wellcome Collection, a museum based in London, where displays a mixture of medical artefacts and original artworks exploring ideas about medicine and art. The animation techniques in the film contain computer animation, object animation, stop motion animation, and multiple experimental artistic practice, such like cotton, beads, acrylic, and celluloid.
'Bird' has won the Hand Painted Animated Shorts Award at Palm Springs Int. Animation Festival in the USA, and has been selected as an official selection film for the Newark International Film Festival, Mountain Tales Film Festival, Anim! Arte International Animation Festival, Randfilmfest, Chaniartoon - International Comic & Animation Festival, Queens Underground Film & Music Video Film Festival, Equinoxio Film Festival and Unseen Festival, etc.
Director: Wu-Ching Chang
Producer: Wu-Ching Chang
Screenwriter: Wu-Ching Chang
Art Director: Wu-Ching Chang
Animator: Wu-Ching Chang
Editor: Wu-Ching Chang
Sound Designer: Wu-Ching Chang, Mike Wyeld
Sound Mixer: Wu-Ching Chang, Mike Wyeld
Honor
2020 Open World Animation Festival (09 - 11 July) / Official Selection
2020 Unknown Film Festival, Russia (27 - 28 June) / Official Selection
2020 Florida Animation Festival, the USA (11-14 June) / Official Selection
2020 Golden Harvest Awards for Outstanding Short Films, Taiwan (03 Jan) / Nomination for The Best Animation Award
2020 Snowtown Film Festival, the USA (24-25 Jan) / Finalist Selection
2019 CutOut Fest - International Animation and Digital Art Festival, Mexico (Nov 14) / Official Selection
2019 Festival Internacional de Cine con Medios Alternativos, Mexico (Nov 27-30) / Official Selection
2019 South Taiwan Film Festival, Taiwan (Nov 08-17) / Official Selection
2019 Grand Rapids Feminist Film Festival, the USA (Oct 27) / Official Selection
2019 Palm Springs Int. Animation Festival, the USA (Dec 14-15) / Hand Painted Animated Shorts Award Winner
2019 International Students Creative Award, Japan (Nov 29-30) / Official Selection
2019 Global University Film Awards, Hong Kong (Nov 04-06) / Official Selection
2019 Jacksonville Film Festival, the USA (Nov 15-17) / Official Selection
2019 Thessaloniki Animation Festival, Greece (Oct 10-13) / Official Selection
2019 Mountain Tales Film Festival, the USA (Oct 04-06) / Official Selection
2019 Anim! Arte - International Animation Festival, Brasil (Oct 03-12) / Official Selection
2019 Randfilmfest, Germeny (Sep 19-22) / Official Selection
2019 Chaniartoon - International Comic & Animation Festival, Greece (Sep 13-22) / Official Selection
2019 Queens Underground Film & Music Video Film Festival, the USA (Oct 17-20) / Official Selection
2019 Equinoxio Film Festival, Colombia (Sep 19-24) / Official Selection
2019 The Unseen Festival, the USA (Sep 20-29) / Official Selection
2019 Newark International Film Festival, the USA (Sep 08) / Official Selection