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from:/to: home

from:/to: home portrays the sense of nostalgia and adolescence, time of transition between childhood and adulthood. To visualize the dreamlike and playful quality of pure childhood, colorful and childlike imagery with vibrant colors were used, along with bell-like sounds tinkling on top of a harmonious musical texture. Simple and recognizable forms were incorporated to reflect an image of a child chasing joy. The second part shows the idea of navigating and coping at unexpected times. Everything in this transitional stage gradually becomes complex to refer to how we meet new people and old relationships fade out. To accentuate emotional and physical stages of moving and living in another place, shattered and glitched images were repeatedly incorporated with an unsettling musical texture constructed by highly distorted and granularized sounds. The last part depicts a drowning of deep thoughts and memories. The pacing of blinking and blowing underwater bubbles, accompanied by a hopeless underwater soundscape, contextualizes and situates the viewer in the spatial location the video is referring to. The viewer is now at the bottom of somewhere dark and unidentifiable looking upward. Adulthood is not only about loneliness but is also an acceptance stage to cope with those emotions. Different values of blue were used to indirectly imply multiple layers in the mind just like the deep sea. Slowly descending into the unknown, one rekindles old relationships through flashbacks.

  • Jae-Eun Janis Suh
    Director
  • Pak Hei Leung
    Director
  • Jae-Eun Janis Suh
    Producer
  • Pak Hei Leung
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Student
  • Genres:
    Narrative, Nostalgia, Short, Childhood
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes 39 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    November 8, 2022
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Jae-Eun Janis Suh, Pak Hei Leung

Jae-Eun Suh
Jae-Eun Suh, a multidisciplinary artist from Austin, Texas, is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in New Media at the University of North Texas. Suh uses digital images and projection to create deconstructed compositions by layering and reconstructing. She believes that layer adds and removes specificity and visualizes dualities. She utilizes both analog and digital methods of production and her work process conveys the fallibility of memory. Her works involve a variety of media — video projection, sculpture, computational image-making, 3D scanning, sound, and installation. Suh was recently an artist in residence at Dance x Technology Creative Lab organized by the Korean National Contemporary Dance Company, in South Korea. She has also received the Talley Dunn Gallery Equity In The Arts Fellowship and her work has been shown at the Centre Culturel et Littéraire Jean Giono in Manosque, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art in Gimpo, South Korea, and The MAC in Dallas.

Pak Hei (Alvin) Leung
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Pak Hei (Alvin) Leung’s compositions have been played in the U.S., Italy, Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong by music groups including Transient Canvas, the Rhythm Method String Quartet, Rosetta Contemporary Ensemble, Duo Zonda, Trio Mythos, Resonance, Stellar Trio, Music-Joint Association, Hong Kong Wind Kamerata, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, Contrast Trio, Hong Kong Saxophone Ensemble and Romer String Quartet. His recent works are featured in SPLICE Institute 2022, EMM 2022, ICMC 2021, SCI National Conference 2021, NSEME 2021, Longy’s Divergent Studio 2021, Hong Kong Contemporary Music Festival 2020&2022, Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra Net Festival, SCI Summer 2020 Student Mixtape, Charlotte New Music Festival 2020 and others.
Alvin is currently a PhD student in Music with a concentration in composition at the University of North Texas. He received a Master of Music degree at Bowling Green State University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Music from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). His principal teachers include Kirsten Soriano Broberg, Panayiotis Kokoras, Marilyn Shrude, Christopher Dietz, Mikel Kuehn, Wendy Wan-ki Lee, Victor Wai-kwong Chan, Hau-man Lo and Ricky Tse.

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