Is this now the time I should let you go?
Yi-Chin Tsai
Taiwan | 2024 | 9′ | Italian Premiere
Like the scenery from a running train, memories are beautiful, blurry and keep changing. This is a film about a daughter’s feelings of losing her father.
After her 13 years processing of the loss, the author mixed video footage and analog film with animation techniques, and brought a diary-like atmosphere in this experimental animated documentary, to immerse the audience in the unspeakable feelings of losing a loved one.
Direction: Yi-Chin Tsai
School: Anima – European Joint Master in Animation, AALTO UNIVERSITY, LUCA SCHOOL OF ARTS, UNIVERSIDADE LUSÓFONA
Yi-Chin was born 1992 in Tainan, Taiwan. Now working as a director and animator.
She used to make films with stop-motion animation, her films usually inspired by her life experience and observations of the world. Her latest film, Is this now the time I should let you go?, which contains experiments of the making process, animation, mixed materials techniques and analog films, expresses the feeling of loss with abstract flowing visuals. Her previous work, Where Am I Going?, won the Best Animation Short Film in the most important film festival,Golden Horse, in Taiwan.
