Joe Chang

The Skytrain

The world's first 8K, 8.5-minute experimental animated short film using "hands" as story characters. This short film tells a story about human love, ethics, war and the future from a unique perspective in a small train space. It is like a mirror reflecting the current situation of today's society and provoking our thoughts.

The Music Box

This animated short film is based on a real story and sets in China during the Cultural Revolution in 1967, It is about a young boy Liang Liang, whose family is suddenly taken to the countryside by Red Guards. He is able to grab the only thing he treasures which is a western style music box, and is careful not to expose it to the red guards since it was linked to western culture.

Present

Daniel Crane is a semi-famous performance artist traveling and touring around the country, entertaining small audiences in the living rooms of houses with his awkward and sometimes alienating acts. On Halloween weekend, he finds himself back home, staying with his kid sister, Dorothy. Along with Dorothy's roommate Cassie, they set out on a trip their old hometown, discovering the things they once remembered are vanishing, and realizing things they've kept inside themselves since childhood never go away.