Animation

Muzi’s Room

Loki Li

Exhibition

See it On Campus: Level 1

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Film Synopsis

Based on personal experience, this experimental film follows Muzi drifting through dreamlike spaces of childhood memories, grief, growth and pain. As fire consumes everything, memory becomes both wound and refuge. Ultimately, Muzi gathers strength from love, passion, and friendship, and finally says farewell to the past.

Medium: 2D Digital Animation

Duration: 6:30min

Genre: Experimental

Artist Statement

Muzi’s Room is a film about my process of recovering from grief. I want to visualize how the pain of loss seeps into a person’s safe space, ultimately changing their attitude toward life. The shared memories simultaneously painful wounds and the fuel that keeps us moving forward. In the film, the rooms are always presented from the same point of view and float statically in the darkness, representing memories. The constantly moving train, on the other hand, symbolizes the passage of time, the progression of age, and the ongoing processes of life. The rooms are generally constructed with simple lines and colors, reflecting pure emotions, while the train is composed of various mediums and rich colors, representing the complexity of reality. Through the contrasts between movement and stillness, simplicity and complexity, the film expresses the tension between reality and memory that we experience while processing grief.