JENN LEE SS18 Intro

Mel is a Visual Artist and an Experimental Filmmaker who constantly exploring avenues of expression that combine New Cinema and Contemporary Art. At age 17, Mel was nominated for the award of British Young Designer of the year (2005). He graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London (2009) and won 1st prize winner for the D&AD student Awards in their Music Video category. He got involved in making music videos, participated in MTV channel idents and was officially selected and screened at Adobe Design Achievement Awards, D&AD New Blood Talent and Rushes Soho Short Festival, etc. Mel received his SVA Paula Rhodes Memorial Award for Exceptional Achievement in MFA Computer Art at School of Visual Art (2015) and student winner of Red Dot Awards in their Film Art category. His film “iNTERFACE” has won numerous of international awards and continues to screen at art and film festivals world wide such as Scope Art Miami, Brooklyn Film Festival, Visionaria Festival and Amsterdam Experimental Film Festival and The Artist Forum Festival of the Moving Image, etc. Mel continues to expand his animation vocabulary with American Digital Artist, Lillian F. Schwartz (1927) to corporate on a short animated film “Pangloss” (2015). He now works as an independent moving image artist and the founder of AniMel Studio to corporates in the art, music and fashion industry such as Jenn Lee, Chiehms, Young Art Taipei, Bito, Taipei Legacy, HIM International Music and EMI Music. His works related to subjects of Identity and body, phenomenology, surrealism and lucid dream as representation of reality that animation could facilitate a film-taking place within the mind.