Permute

Directed by Lydia Fu

Program 12: Vanimasian Retrospective / Canada / 2008 / Animation / 4.5 mins / English / Colour

Plays In:

Program 12 – VANIMASIAN RETROSPECTIVE

Cineplex Odeon International Village Cinemas
November 9, 2014 4:00 pm

Description

Our existential heroine Lulu attempts to solve a cryptic fate that she is only able to discover through the oblique vignettes of a film noir cityscape. “Permute” is a four-minute animated short that depicts a young woman’s journey through a surrealist world fraught with mystery, anxiety and apprehension.

Awards:

Spatial Poetics X // Powell Street Festival, Vancouver, BC (2011), Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Toronto, ON (2009), Anifest, Czech Republic (2009), DisOrient Asian Film Festival, Oregon, USA (2009), Okanagan International Film Festival, Kelowna, BC (2009), Victoria Film Festival, Victoria, BC (2009), Miami Shorts Film Festival, Official Selection, Miami, FL, USA (2008), Vancouver Asian Film Festival, Vancouver, BC (2008), Montreal World Film Festival, Montreal, QC (2008), ECU Presidential Award Nominee, Vancouver, BC (2008)

Director's Bio

Lydia is an artist based in Chicago, IL. She completed her Bachelor in Media Arts for Animation at Emily Carr University, Vancouver, BC. She has a hard spot for new school and a soft spot for old school media. To view more of her work, please visit www.lydiafu.com.

Credits

Writer: Lydia Fu
Producer: Lydia Fu

Plays in

Program 12: VANIMASIAN RETROSPECTIVE

Program 12: Vanimasian Retrospective / 104 mins
VANIMASIAN RETROSPECTIVE, curated by VAFF alumnus and Webby award-winning, Emmy® nominated animation and documentary filmmaker Jeff Chiba Stearns, features Vancouver-based Asian and Asian Canadian animators, and/or animations created in Vancouver, over the past 18 years. Join us after the screening for a panel moderated by Jeff Chiba Stearns, discussing independent and commercial animation in Vancouver as well as festival distribution strategies for animation with some of the retrospective's filmmakers.
In This Program: Cats, Insert Credit, Lost and Found, Wind & Tree, Crow’s Nests, Peter & the Space Between, Nature On Its Course, Zero (0), Key Tumi?, Gluttony, Permute, Never Now, What Are You Anyways?, Great Expectations (Not what you’re thinking…)

Preceded By

Gluttony

Ann Marie Fleming / Program 12: Vanimasian Retrospective / Canada / 2009 / Animation / 2 mins
Stickgirl’s parents are coming to visit. How will it all go?
Preceded by: Never Now

Precedes: Permute, Key Tumi?