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No-Land: Life in 2223

Human civilization was born in the ocean. Science research shows that all lives including human were originated from the ocean. The future of human being would be closely related to the ocean as well.

Many forecasts show that in 2050, the rising seas will erase a large number of coastal cities. In the year 2223, the evolved humans are starting to build ‘No-Land’, a hypothetical underwater residential area in a parallel universe, set in the situation of the disappearance of land. Lei invites the viewer to enter this fantastical world and meet three underwater citizens. Licht (appear as Lux in its virtual form) as your neighbour, Lacey as a landlord and collector, and Lachesis who runs a delivery service. The fashion performance film illustrates characters and their surroundings through the use of colours, materials, the form of their bodies, and methods of filming. Lei depicts the scenario using mixed techniques including digital experiments from character modelling to digital fashion creation, and physical making processes from fish leather tanning to analogue photography, to celebrate the malleability of future human identities.

  • Lei Jiang
    Director
  • Annie Zhao
    Key Cast
    "Lacey"
  • Lei Jiang
    Camera
  • Yuke Liu
    Camera
  • Ziyi Wang
    Assistant
  • Lei Jiang
    3D
  • Heng
    3D
  • Lei Jiang
    Animation
  • Lei Jiang
    Editing
  • Lei Jiang
    Costumes and props
  • Podington Bear
    Music
  • Victor Herbert Orchestra
    Music
  • Pilesar
    Music
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short, Student, Web / New Media, Other
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 9 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 14, 2022
  • Country of Origin:
    United Kingdom
  • Country of Filming:
    United Kingdom
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Royal College of Art
  • London
    United Kingdom
    July 24, 2022
    Royal College of Art 2022
Director Biography - Lei Jiang

Born in Hangzhou, China, currently based in London, UK. Lei is a fashion textile artist who specialised in creating fashion costumes using mixed media forms of printed textiles. Her works focus on creating narratives that are challenging gender norms and celebrating human identity. Lei graduated from Royal College of Art in MA Textiles after a graduation from London College of Fashion with a First-Class Honours degree in BA (Hons) Fashion Textiles: Print, where she started exploring the boundary between performance costume and contemporary fashion. During her study, Lei has explored her identities through various forms of creation-- from traditional ways of textile printing and illustrating to digitally modelling, and creating moving images.

Eternity, Romance and Revolution, represent Lei’s ideal way of human existence. To have everlasting life and regeneration ability like a jellyfish, to have the most romantic life form of a whale, and to have the revolutionary pursuit of evolution and metamorphosis. Lei's works are always about human-being and she's keen on creating an ever-lasting piece as an elixir of life.

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