Frozen Frog

Frozen Frog(2023)

Experimental Animation in 3 mins 21secs

 

SYNOPSIS

Because of the lack of common language,a frog choose to be silence.

 

“I made these ceramic frogs during the 106-day lockdown.

The crystals of frog spawn in the green glaze are sourced from the dust in the air, and time is frozen in this moment.

On January 8th, 2023, Shanghai officially abolished antigen tests and quarantines for arrivals.

On January 29th, 2023, the 8th day of the first lunar month, we free captive animals to pray for luck.

To shoot this footage, I placed the ceramic frogs onto the water, but starling ones in hibernation.”

 

CAST & CREDITS

Director: YiyangSun

Animation: YiyangSun 

Camera: YiyangSun 

Ceramic: YiyangSun

Sound design: YiyangSun LeYi OuYang

Her Voice:JiaQi Li

Compositing and editing: YiyangSun

呱(2023)

实验动画  3分21秒

 

简介

 

迫于语言的隔膜,一只青蛙选择沉默。

 

 

“我在疫情封控的106天里制作了这些陶瓷青蛙。

青釉中的青蛙卵泡结晶来源于空气中的尘埃,时间凝结于此刻。

2023年1月8日,上海正式取消入境核酸及隔离

1月29日,正月初八,放生祈福

我将陶瓷放在水中拍摄,惊醒了冬眠的青蛙”

 

 

导演:孙逸阳

动画:孙逸阳

摄影:孙逸阳

陶瓷:孙逸阳

声音设计:孙逸阳,欧阳乐一

旁白:李嘉琪

合成:孙逸阳

Makingof

Exhibition

当我们在白盒子空间中引入生态链中的水池与草丛会发生什么呢?在展期一周之后, 相当数量的蚊子在陶瓷作品和水池中产卵,孵化。在漆黑的展厅中,观众拿着手电筒探视影像,以人的姿态进行监控。

观众会被邀请拿起水池边的碰水壶(内装驱蚊水与酒精),消灭装置中培育的蚊子。

青蛙作为生态链中的一环,本是捕蚊动物,但当下它的身体被凝固住,象征着在系统循环中的特定对象的缺位,拿起喷水壶驱蚊的行为更是能联想到“消杀”的经验。

装置作品自身被构造为“动画及其生产过程”这一整体且它的综合媒介性又会对空间与观众产生新的化学反应。

When we introduce a pool and a grassy area from an ecological chain into the white box space, after one week of the exhibition, mosquitoes will lay eggs and hatch in the ceramic artwork and the pool. In the pitch-black gallery, the audience use flashlights to explore the moving images, monitoring them as humanbeingthey will beinvited to pick up the kettle by the poolside (containing mosquito repellent and alcohol) to eliminate the mosquitoes bred within the installation. 

 

Frogs are originally natural predators of mosquitoes, a part of the ecological chain. However, in the present context, they become frozen frogs, symbolizing the absence of specific one in the system cycle. The act of using the water spray bottle to repel mosquitoes can be associated with the experience of “disinfect. Now the process of the handmade film are being expended, and its comprehensive media nature relies on the space and the audience.

 

I try to unfolding the skin of the handmade film through the craft of framing time.