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An animated adaption of the Chinese tale, The Dragon Gate.
Based on the Chinese myth ‘The Dragon Gate’ this film is a metaphor for the struggle to make something of your life, the struggle to ‘jump the waterfall’ and achieve your goals. The act of trying itself makes you learn, and experience life fully, even at the risk of failing.This film also cuts through time and culture by using references to a recent American poet and a modern English interpretation of an ancient Chinese myth. The text was found in a 12th century Japanese Buddhist text, using an ancient Chinese tale to explain a concept, for all cultures in the distant future to learn from.
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- Narrator Margaret Robertson
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Winner of the Jose Abel Prize for Best Animation in a European Film (for poetic visual style) at Cinanima 2005
Birds Eye View, London 2005
Bimini, Latvia 2005
Festival of Cinema and Technology, worldwideZlinfest, Czech Republic 2005
Corta! Porto Int. Short Film Festival, Portugal 2005
Canadian Film Centre's Worldwide Short Film Festival 2005
Anima Mundi, Rio de Janeiro & São Paulo 2005
Experimentica, Cardiff 2004
© 2004 Lucy Lee
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funded by Chapter Arts and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
produced by Instinct Films
selected by This film was chosen by the British Council from their catalogue.
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