Crowded Dreams 密集夢想|animation short film
2019 Jing Shan Classic, Cultural & Creative Arts Award, Digital Animation category, Merit award
作品榮獲2019年夏荊山文創藝術獎 數位動畫優選獎
作品榮獲2019年夏荊山文創藝術獎 數位動畫優選獎
This is a busy and crowded city in Asia. A lot of clothing flying with wind imply condensed people living here. Pedestrians pass through the big roads which transformed into athletics running tracks, meanwhile, there are traffic lights counting down the remaining time. On the wall, there is the calendar which is torn page by page, showing the life time is getting less and less. We always have some traditional expectations from people at different ages, meanwhile, the typical Chinese calendar shows "what to do" and "not to do" at every life stage, just like find a stable job, marrying an appropriate person, have children and have a family, buying a house and save money......etc. We worship to god, hoping we can become a successful person. And We put our dreams into those high and condensed buildings, and we are imprisoned by our dreams. In digital era, the way how we use smartphone for phubbing imply on the high buildings top up endlessly. It's like human's desire gets deeper and deeper, on the other side, the buildings build higher and higher. The whole city produce resources endlessly, and it shows that world resources unevenly distribute under civilization development. The city imprison many people who are kidnapped by desire and dreams, and we learn lessons and how to rescue yourself from those crowded dreams in this city, and free your and everyone's soul in this chaotic world.
這是一座繁忙的亞洲都市,隨風搖曳的衣服曬在公寓窗外暗示著密集的人口居住在這裡,如田徑跑道般人人競爭的馬路,有著匆忙行走的路人正快速通過秒數倒數的紅綠燈,牆上的日曆正在一頁頁地撕去我們人生時間的倒數。我們每個人生階段總是被寄予著期望,日曆上說著每個年齡的吉與忌,時間到了,就該去工作,結婚生子、買房成家......密集的城市承載著每個人的夢想,而夢想也常成了囚禁自己的牢籠。我們求神拜佛,祈求自己能達到人們都認定的成功目標。數位時代裡,用手指不斷滑動加載的手機視窗,堆叠出無限增高的大廈公寓,暗喻快速滿足人們慾望,無窮無盡地加載,慾望越深,建築就蓋的越高。整座城市充滿了無限複製的資源,同時也反映文明發展下的資源分配不均,城市囚禁著無數被慾望與夢想綁架的人們,學習超脫塵世的束縛,從密集夢想的都市牢籠裡解救自己與眾生。