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Mr. Doug (2025)
Experimental Short，Multimedia (Sand and 3D) animation, 2'28"
Mr. Doug was my research collaborator. To ‘ memorize’ him, I made this film.
Film Concept:
Mr. Doug began with a question about the relationship between the artist and the life they bring into being. In Frankenstein, life emerges from an experiment, and with that act of creation comes responsibility, failure, abandonment, and death. I began to wonder whether experimental art might carry a similar condition: if an artwork could be alive, then perhaps the artist is, in some sense, the one who creates the Frankenstein.
As an independent experimental animator, I often think of my practice as a series of experiments. And experiments, by nature, do not always succeed. Over the years, I have accumulated unfinished films, abandoned characters, failed visual tests, and fragments that never found their way onto a screen. Yet these things were not entirely lifeless. At some point, each of them had been given a body, a gesture, a rhythm, perhaps even the beginnings of a personality. Whenever I chose to abandon a project, I was left with a strange and almost irrational melancholy—as though I had not simply deleted a file, but extinguished a small life that was once meant to move, breathe, and exist on the screen.
From this feeling came an impulse that was both mournful and darkly humorous: if these failed works were dead, then perhaps they deserved a proper funeral.
Mr. Doug was born from that imagined funeral. The film gathers together abandoned experiments, discarded images, and the artist’s lingering sense of guilt, allowing the death of unfinished works to become the material of a new work. In this sense, the film is both a farewell and an act of resurrection. The lives I once abandoned return to the screen—not as what they were originally meant to become, but transformed, inhabiting another body, and living once again through Mr. Doug.