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Beast

Country: Netherlands, Language: English, 6 mins

  • Director: Aileen Ye
  • Producer: Aileen Ye

CGiii Comment

When you have to read the blurb to understand what's going on...what's the point?!?

Badly filmed and lit...and, someone went a bit berserk in post-production!


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The(ir) Blurb...

Beast follows a dreamscape nightmare about the fragile complexities grappled within diasporic Asian cultures and identities. Embodied and expressed through a martial arts inspired dance-fight between a traditional lion dancer and modern queer dancer, this film symbolically highlights diasporic identity displacement and coming to terms with one’s own cultural grief.

The figures symbolise the clash between modernity and tradition, colonised and imported heritage, and the feeling of cultural anxiety. The combination of contemporary and martial arts movement represent both entities seeking to co-exist as each other’s yin-yang and to find balance within the isolation they both experience.

Cast & Characters

Lee Teng Poh (as Modern dancer)