Prey

Screening With

SHe

(95min, Stop Motion Animated Film)

Screening + Panel Talk

This thesis film visualizes the philosophical concept of an ancient Chinese proverb: “a mantis hunting the cicada unknowingly falls prey to the eyes of an oriole.”

SUN Jing is an animation director who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from China’s Jilin Animation Institute in 2012, and a master’s from California State University, Los Angeles in 2018. She has worked on I Saw Mice Burying A Cat (2012), the Grand Prix winner at the International Animation Festival Hiroshima. Her animated shorts The Old Man and the Pears (2016) and Prey (2018) have travelled the international festival circuit. She focuses on the aesthetic areas of animation, and her goal is to invent and explore more possibilities in visualization.