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A dressing room where one might run into metta bhavana

A meditation on the aesthetics of transformation, convergence and identity. Three close friends inhabit their individual places of transformation while clothed in multi-way garments.

  • Nyein Chan Serenity Paing
    Director
  • Nyein Chan Serenity Paing
    Producer
  • Kieran Merriman
    Director of Photography
  • Dinesha Perera
    Key Cast
  • Brooks Ballard
    Key Cast
  • Harshit Sampat
    Key Cast
  • Lucy Read
    Set Design
  • Kristofer Peralta
    Sound Design & Production
  • Alexandra Barron
    Sound Recording Artist
  • Project Type:
    Short, Student
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    July 17, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    200 AUD
  • Country of Origin:
    Australia
  • Country of Filming:
    Australia
  • Language:
    English
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Director Biography - Nyein Chan Serenity Paing

Nyein Chan 'Seren/Sanni' Paing is a fashion design educator, textile artist and storyteller. She explores themes of identity, belonging and wellbeing through the vehicles of fashion, textiles and film.

As a former refugee from Myanmar she is currently exploring autoethonography to embody and weave together ephemeral narratives between self, other and place. She is on a journey of reconnecting with lost and vanishing knowledges.

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Director Statement

The creation of this fashion collection and film provided me the space to inhabit the deep time of my body through metta bhavana (the cultivation of loving-kindness). Following an internally guided yet physically distant link to areas where my ancestors practised and engaged with textiles and dress, I position myself here on Country.

As the rainforest ecosystems of Myanmar are rapidly becoming lost to resource exploitation, I look to the role of colour and its role in the lives of the communities who work with it. My findings here begin an investigation into notions of ‘women’s work’ as cultural custodianship and care for the planet.

Constructing and wearing fashion/dress becomes a process of revealing how my lived experiences converge with those of it's wearers.
The affect of individualisation becomes clear through a series of transformable garments designed to be worn across multiple bodies with multiple histories.