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shareLike tides, our lives carry us across unfamiliar shores, through growing pains, tangled worlds, and the wonder and uncertainty of existence. Across diverse animated mediums, Entropic Tide traces these shifting currents—from displacement to belonging, from becoming to unraveling—where memory and loss dissolve into the strange, beautiful disorder of existence.
Guest curated by Grey Rui Han, Story Artist at Netflix.
In this program
PAPER DAUGHTER
Directed by: Cami Kwan | 15 mins
Arriving at Angel Island in 1926, a young Chinese girl must take on a borrowed identity to face the scrutiny of immigration inspection and is haunted by the guilt of living another girl’s life in pursuit of a new one.
CABBAGE DADDY
Directed by: Grace An | 4 mins
“Why am I so bad at Korean?” A glimpse into the mind of someone who is not so good at learning multiple languages.
SO HE GRABBED THE KNIFE
Directed by: Sam Kuwa | 12 mins
The boy takes the knife his father once gave him. Did what followed make him a “man”?
TRADING CARDS
Directed by: Radheya Jang | 15 mins
The past, present, and future collide when a mysterious man confronts his younger self over a game of trading cards. A dark fantasy animated film exploring the weight of living with obsessive-compulsive disorder and the erosion of childhood innocence.
SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS
Directed by: Sakshi Jain | 3 mins
A gridded series of over 1500 improvised drawings in a tiny sketchbook, each smaller than a centimeter, compiled digitally into an animation.
CHAI
Directed by: Aryan Anand | 5 mins
As thunder cracks and the tea kettle hisses, Ajmer prepares a “special order” to support his ailing mother, remembering the fateful night his saint-like father passed away.
A TRIP TO THE EAR
Directed by: Jee-youn PARK | 12 mins
A woman living in a house that drifts like cosmic debris wakes to find her right ear and her husband gone. To recover what was lost, she embarks on a surreal journey through the void.
DEAR UPSTAIRS NEIGHBORS
Directed by: Connie He | 6 mins
A young woman desperate for a good night’s sleep is kept awake by her exceedingly noisy neighbors. As she struggles to imagine what could be causing the cacophony upstairs, reality drifts into fantasy and an epic battle for peace and sanity ensues.
WALKIE
Directed by: Yibo Xu | 5 mins
A cat and a dog wander the streets looking for somewhere to eat, only to find themselves confronting a much bigger question: how to make choices in life when every choice means leaving another behind?
ORIGIN: THE LUX
Directed by: Wonjung Choi | 3 mins
Creation begins the moment a single dot appears in the void. The dot is the first proof of existence—the origin of all form. As it drifts through time, the dot becomes a trace, and its disappearance becomes a comma—pausing only to begin again.
GREEN SKINS
Directed by: Christina Zhang | 7 mins
About to pursue her dream in a faraway city, a young girl is torn between the sorrow of departure and longing for the unknown, until her train transforms into a dragon, carrying her into the magical night sky.
CARTOON PHYSICS
Directed by: Max Porter, Ru Kuwahata | 11 mins
A mother confronts her child’s first encounter with death by retreating into the impossible logic of old cartoons.
Dates & Times
UltraStar Cinemas Mission Valley
Sat, Nov 7
1:00 pm
