Interview with filmmaker Tingting Liu (BEING)

I chatted with Chinese animation filmmaker Tingting Liu about her short film BEING. It created a lot of reactions when it played at the WILDsound FEEDBACK Film Festival in August.

Watch the Audience FEEDBACK Video of BEING:

Interview with Tingting Liu:

Matthew Toffolo: What motivated you to make this film?

Tingting: About 12 years ago I watched a film called lost in Translation, I didn’t get its deep meaning at that time. But once I started my life in America, I remember that movie time to time. It is nice to be strong and independent. But sometimes it could be very hard to understand other people. It is even more difficult to read ourselves through other people. At first I thought it was just for international people. But now I feel it is for everyone, who has a lonely self hiding very deep inside. I am trying to show this…