GENESIS
Director: Isaac Kerlow
Cast:Cast: Ivan YONG Wai Wan, Wendy CHEE Wei Ling, LIM Yu-Beng, OON Shu An
Crew:Producers: Isaac Kerlow - Screenwriters: Isaac Kerlow - Animators: Liu Yang, Nguyen Thi Nam Phuong - Cinematographers: David Lee Ling Wei, Jonathan Chong Neng Jie- Editors: Isaac Kerlow, Alicia Yang
Email:isaac@ntu.edu.sg
Synopsis
Life is created from light and motion. A man and a woman are born and fall in love, but their harmony is short lived. Genesis is an experimental 3 minute animation within the Sudden Nature suite. The short combines a variety of animation techniques and includes an original musical score.
About the director
Isaac Kerlow has a long career as a pioneer digital artist and independent filmmaker, and his work has been shown internationally. He is Artist-in-Residence at the Earth Observatory of Singapore, and arrived to the tropical island in 2005 as Founding Dean of the country's first professional art and film school. Isaac is also the author of several ground-breaking books, and his recent film Mayon: The Volcano Princess won the Best Concept Award at the United Nations Summit of Environmental Cinema in 2010. His latest film Time Rojak is scheduled for release in mid-2013.
Filmmaker's note
GENESIS is an experimental 3-minute animation that is part of the Sudden Nature suite, a project about the uneasy relation between Man and Nature. GENESIS is also about an inescapable relationship, care and destruction, life and death. Life is created from light and motion. A man and a woman are born and fall in love, but their harmony is short lived. The short combines a variety of animation techniques including 2D animation, live action and computer-generated animation. The original musical score was a collaboration with Spanish composer Sergio Moure. The humorous and somewhat absurd voice-over is provided by Singaporean actors Lim Yu-Beng and Oon Shu An.