Terra Incognita 2010
An homage to Len Lye and Jules Engel, Terra Incognita is a hand-drawn animated abstraction in three parts.
An homage to Len Lye and Jules Engel, Terra Incognita is a hand-drawn animated abstraction in three parts.
original ink painted animation by Wolf Smoke Studio Shanghai
The gaki is a "biwa" player of the ogre, who plays the instrument well. When he starts to play it at the veranda, surroundings transform into the profound and remote world. Characters come out from the electric wire and then they start to dance to the melody on the line. The music turn into the wind and the wind calls the waves. The gaki integrates with the waves.
Meng Chuan witnessed his mother killed before his eyes, so he trained very hard hoping to one day avenge her death. But his peaceful days were broken as his wedding engagement being called off, an invasion by foreign forces, the sanctuary fallen into enemy hands… In order to protect the people of Ning City, he picked up his sword and vowed to be the strongest. This is a heavy responsibility and a long journey…