Pick a Future
Yi-Chun Kao
2010 Golden Award
07'05"3D Computer animation
Influenced by Chinese traditional thoughts, Taiwanese parents are one of the peoples who most easily plan careers for children. Parents are likely to expect much on their children when they were still babies. With social values and the thought that first impressions are most lasting, they map out a road to reach the bright future in their minds. Maybe it is because they would like to protect their children or just want to fulfill their unfinished dreams, expecting children to have good careers in the future and have better achieve success and reflect credit on their forefathers. Our culture does not encourage us to be self-assertive; on the contrary, the children who are obedient are good ones. Many children live up to filial piety, but which also makes their little dreams hidden in minds extinguished. Their constrained minds, thereby, cannot soar.
Originating from this land, Eastern culture brings us countless subject matters for story creation. Eastern thought and custom cultivation is the deep-rooted Chinese background that makes who we are. This creation combines with expression techniques from Western culture, via universal animation language, reproducing our traditional customs that gradually go into a decline by performances and sound and light effects, and discussing the Eastern inherent thoughts behind the text.
Yi-Chun Kao
Artist IntroductionMaster of Art, Department of Multimedia and Animation Arts, National Taiwan University of Arts. 2006 Taiwan International Animation Festival Taiwan Competition. 2008 4C Digital Design Awards Bright Ideas Design Sponsorship and Quality Award. 2010 Student Creative Short Films Exhibition of Chinese Area First Grand Prize, The Youth Film Festival of Taiwan International and Taiwan First Golden Prize, Taipei County Film Festival International Student Film Golden Lion Award, South Taiwan Film Festival Nomination.