Info
Synopsis (25 words): “It's my expression, my body, so it's my call". The artist considers tattoos are meaningful signs for herself.
Credits
Director: Ikea Xie (Yichia Hsieh)
Animator: Ikea Xie (Yichia Hsieh)
Sound Design: Clansie Daoyun Cheng
Special Thanks: Basie Yeh, Zong Xian, Leticia Wu
Biography Ikea Xie (Yichia Hsieh) is a Taiwanese animator currently based in London. She has intelligent observation and narrative ability. She has a high quality of rhythmic sense for mastering motion images. This makes her work have a broad vision and borderless creativity when transforming abstract meaning into visual symbols.
Director statement
I think tattoo would be with you forever once you get it on your body, it must be meaning to myself. By selecting 18 articles from my diary. These texts are strongly linked to myself. I translated and visualized them to the patterns. And then, utilizing interactive projection and animation techniques to make tattoos come alive and tell the story under the pattern.
Social media
cargocollective.com/ikeaxie
Instagram: ikea_xie.mov
Facebook: facebook.com/yiga0207
Technical info
Length : 1min 24 secs
Size: 1920x1080 HD
Sound: Stereo
Prores & H264