Experiencing Interruptions?

Into the next tide

A castaway, Tofu, is found ashore by a group of musicians. Together, the band welcomes their newcomer. Meanwhile, at the other side of sea, something is calling upon Tofu in reminiscence of a past storm.

  • Yaya Xi-lin Wang
    Director
  • Yaya Xi-lin Wang
    Writer
  • Yuki Marin Nakayama
    Key Cast
    "Mer sounds"
    Sound designer & music composer
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    直到下一个海潮
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short, Student
  • Genres:
    Musical, Feel good, Self-discovery journey, Grief
  • Runtime:
    9 minutes 29 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    August 1, 2023
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    2D
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Royal college of art
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
Director Biography - Yaya Xi-lin Wang

Yaya is a beloved community-organizer, artist, and apprentice herbalist living in London. They are dedicated to creating spaces of healing and growth for marginalized communities, especially queer, migrants, disabled individuals and creators of the global majority. Yaya does visual and performance art, mixing mediums such as inks, clays, waterbased paints, for their mobility and having a memory quality to them - and water being culturally an element embodying belonging, which is a theme pillar to Yaya's work.
Yaya also organizes mutual-aid efforts and nurtures spaces for communal grieving, political education, and workshops blending art and nature.

Yaya’s artistic practice is heart-led and deeply intuitive, weaving animation, somatic awareness and play with language to connect with the needs of disabled and neurodivergent creators, and bring more care into holding them better in the labor-intensive standards of the animation industry.

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Director Statement

Into the next tide stems from Yaya's work and interest around grief, especially as a communal practice. At the intersection of their queerness, heritage, and history of migrating from place to place, Into the next tide is a film around loss, composting the grief and conversing with pain, rebuilding in softness but resilience. The film aims at embodying mobility and openness.
Into the next tide was animated straight-ahead, to be like the tidal motion of moving on. A way of animating that was a deep sensory experience for Yaya that was healing and brought clarity and relief to a loss they were experiencing vividly at the time.