5UN XUN'5 2 D4Y W0RK5H0P: @ C4L4R75

Experimental artist from China, Sun Xun came to Valencia  as a guest.  A two day workshop was announced and he chose me as the Director of a collaborative animation based on a small piece of paper that I wrote a whole story on with a tiny drawing with a ball-point pen.

My story was set in the countryside, and a storm was on the verge of coming.  Preparations started in the interior of the house.  Each of the members of a small family had preparations for chores:  Collecting food for the basement, bundling sheets from the laundry line to bring to the cellar, etc.  In the exterior of the house, animals of all sorts were fleeing into the forest behind the house dragging little ones quickly.  When the storm finally comes, the house is unharmed, and everything behind the house is safe because of their preparations.

It turns out the girl sitting next to me, Christy Heyob, actually has been thru a tornado back in the mid-west.  Her room was the only damaged part of the barn she lived in, being that the ceiling collapsed right thru as her mother pulled her out on time.  She had two cats that were unharmed and she also had a forest behind the barn.  WHAT A COINCIDENCE ISN'T IT??


It started with the smallest slip of torn paper...go talented team!

[The first scene, the titles, and most of the editing were all done by me]:  TODAY'S WEATHER



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