Zhuoer Chen
Fiction, 5 min, digital | 2020
Screenings:
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2023 @ San Diego Independent Filmmakers Festival (U.S.)
2022 @ Paris Play Film Festival (France)
(Winner of “Best Experimental”)
2022 @ Moscow Shorts International Short Film Festival (Russia)
2022 @ Luleå International Film Festival (Sweden)
2022 @ Guangzhou Mao International Film Festival (China)
2022 @ Boden International Film Festival (Sweden)
(Semi-Finalist)
2022 @ All American High School Film Festival (U.S.)
2021 @ Flicker’s Rhode Island International Film Festival (Semi-Finalist) (U.S.)
2021 @ NYU Welcome Festival (U.S.)
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Exhibition:
2022 @The Gallatin Galleries, New York, U.S.
My first humble attempt at filmmaking
A man asks a box what is inside the box. The box responds to him that the answer is not in the box. Meanwhile, a writer initiates the same quest with his typewriter. Can the two men find the answers to their self-explanatory questions? Think Outside the Box is an attempt doomed to fail, just like its characters. While I break my block as a writer-filmmaker, the film’s failure is already prophesied in its title.​
