ELEPHANT IN CASTLE
《城堡裡的大象》
(2021)

Elephant in Castle is a 2D digital animation, using a hand-drawn frame-by-frame process to create subtle abstract narratives. The work expresses a constant change within Lee’s inner world, to express the emotional, aesthetic, and tactile responses that she has to Hong Kong, the city where she grew up. Stepping into a new decade, the world is coming to an unprecedented and critical moment in history. The work could be a reflection conveyed by Lee's sentimental responses to the personal stories and memories that took place in the city.

Lee was inspired by the research topic and artworks relating to Topophilia. Topophilia, terms from Greek topos “place” and -philia, “love of”, is a “strong sense of place, which often becomes mixed with the sense of cultural identity among certain people and a love of certain aspects of such a place.” People in a city might come from different places originally, but they all form their own paths of connectivity and responses to the places we inhabit, and even to the particular site that they pass through occasionally.

Director
Florence Yuk-ki Lee
ComposerJust Bee
Sound DesignerFlorence Xingyu Tan
Additional AnimationTina Bahraei
Additional CompositingDi Wu

AdvisorMax Hattler

Additional AnimationTina Bahraei

Production StudioNo Reason Studio

Special ThanksHerald Kraemer
Leung Chi Wo
Tobias Klein
Yu Ka Ho Albert