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MONSOON BLUE

Jay Wong Hiu-kit | Ellis Chan Ka-yin | 2023 | Hong Kong, China | 14min | Short
Jay Wong Hiu-kit, Ellis Chan Ka-yin | Donald Kwok Wing-kin | Houzhi HUANG, Jay Wong Hiu-kit, Ellis Chan Ka-yin | Dave Cheung | Kay Tse, Lee Chi Wan, Louise, Cheng Yu Chun, Valerie

Synopsis

The dream of a goldfish to return into its wild form uproars her long-forgotten memories, and a self-conscious monsoon is about to be uninhibited.


Director's statement

When searching for the answer to “the reason to exist”, we have to go through a stage like a storm during the monsoon season, it’s suffocating, it’s strange and it’s chaotic. Two goldfish try setting themselves free from the plastic bag that’s trapping them in, in order to get out and go back to the wild. As the legend said, that’s the only way to return to their original form. Meanwhile, there is the owner of the fish store, a young girl, who lives life in a soulless way. It feels like there is no purpose in her life. She and the goldfish are all trapped in the city until the typhoon arrived. When our soul is broken, where and how can we find it back?



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Jay Wong Hiu-kit

Jay Wong is a Hong Kong animation director, animator, illustrator and comic artist. He graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Digital Media.

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Ellis Chan Ka-yin

Ellis Kayin CHAN is a Barcelona based Hong Kong animation director, animator and a visual artist. He gradurated from Gobelins l'école de l'image in 2018.