Fishing
An award-winning 2D animated short screened at The British Film Institute.
"Lured in by a strange eyeball while fishing, a girl ventures into the deep sea and finds out that everything begins and ends with a fish."
Inspired by the concept of reincarnation, "Fishing" is an abstract exploration of wonder, growth, meaning, spirituality, and an animated attempt to make sense of the absurdities of the cycle of life. The karmic cycle is the central theme, portrayed in a spiritual sense where "nature always balances itself out”.
This looping cycle of life, presented in the act of fishing, proposes the idea that everything in the universe is all interconnected and what we put out into the world will always be reflected back to us in this lifetime or another.
FISHING (2023) animated short
AWARDS & FESTIVAL SELECTIONS
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Shortlisted for Global Graduate Showcase in collaboration with GUCCI
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BPISFF Best Animated Short Award Winner 2023
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BFI British Film Institute NAHEMI "Eat Our Shorts" 2023 Official Selection
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Semi-Finalist at AniMate Australia Animation Film Festival 2024
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Roma Short Film Festival 2024 Official Selection
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Festival Of the Moving Image (FOMI) 2024 official Selection
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Vesuvius International Film Fest 2023 Official Selection
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Mobile Animation Film Festival 2023 Official Selection
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London Movement Festival 2023 Official Selection
"Every time you victimized someone, you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you’ve done, you’ve done to yourself. Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you."
The Egg by Andy Weir is short story about reincarnation that inspired me greatly, the story proposes the idea that everyone on this earth is just one singular soul being re-incarnated over and over again. As a person who had a very religious upbringing, I never had the chance to explore any sort of spirituality beyond the religion I was indoctrinated into. Now, I am an atheist trying to unlearn all the things I have been taught as a child so I can have the freedom to choose what to believe in on my own. Reading about different religion's beliefs on life and death intrigued me. The sacred texts in Christianity, Judaism and Islam talk of an afterlife. For Buddhists, belief in reincarnation is based on the tradition that the Buddha remembered his past lives when he reached enlightenment.
I began to wonder, what if every religion has some truth to it, but there is no religion that is the ultimate truth? Therefore, I wanted to create a film about spiritual freedom, and use animation to explore growth, meaning, and spirituality, in attempt to make sense of the absurdities of the cycle of life. As I researched about reincarnation, I read about the karmic cycle, which is a cycle of repeating events caused by our actions. It is the belief that we create these cycles through the choices we make during our lives, which bring us either happiness or suffering. Karma is an invisible energy that flows through everything in the universe and connects every living being together. And so, in the midst of all this, Fishing was born.