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Wenwen Liao ’14, Animation

March 30, 2014

As a filmmaker, working with animation, I explore the ideas of personal narrative through imagery that reflects various states of mind. The significance of human existence and self-awareness is something that I find fascinating, and the translation of those elements into artistic forms has given me a storytelling technique in which I can express myself.

My animated films express among other feelings, confused emotions, reflecting on isolation, existential stress, and the loss of childhood innocence. I use a labor-intensive style to achieve expressiveness and depth that is needed to create the illusions that evoke this sort of emotion. My works are fragments, visual poetry. Layers appear and disappear,creating new spaces and organically shifting the narrative as the layers fold and unfold,always with new insights and images through time. This continuous transformation of visual space results in a fluid visual experience of the universal emotions we all share.

Wenwen Liao '14

Wenwen Liao '14