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Soap

The magnificence of love is like soap, illusory yet fascinating, exuding a sweet fragrance and dazzling bubbles, but the soap is slowly consumed in every seemingly inadvertent friction, and as time goes by, it all becomes void. Love leaves no trace of its existence, and eventually disappears. This is a short film about a fragment of the life of Xiaoban (the heroine).

  • Dayang Zhang
    Director
  • Dayang Zhang
    Writer
  • Yuyang Lei
    Producer
    The Knots, Under the Skin
  • Chuan Tian
    Key Cast
  • Chong Wu
    Key Cast
  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    5 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    April 26, 2023
  • Production Budget:
    4,000 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    China
  • Country of Filming:
    China
  • Language:
    No Dialogue
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Beijing Film Academy
Director Biography - Dayang Zhang

Dayang, director and cinematographer, born in Hebei, graduated from cinematography department, Beijing Film Academy. Plenty of his works have been published domestically. In his early childhood, he was indulged in classical music, he is now also an electronic music artist.
The insight Dayang possesses derives from the city and the nature, and the collision between people, just like the ebb and flow of tides. He is keen to feel the resonance of wind, rain, rivers, lakes, seas, trembling leaves and everlasting mountains. He tends to blend natural elements into realistic or unrealistic films, which creates his own unique image style. After finishing “Soap”, the short film, he also stays active in preparing for his first feature film.

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Director Statement

Dreams are the beginning of illusion. Everything in the dream may come from self-doubt, just like soap bubbles exposed to the air, not knowing where to go. Does time advance in dreams? Is the creature in the dream the person who drank all the water? Is the gender of her ex-boyfriend defined by her or society? Life after waking up from a dream is like a whirlpool repeating itself.