Innocent Flesh

Innocent Flesh marks director LIN Yihan’s third entry in the Fountainhead. We screened her short films Yesterday I Was the Moon in 2022 and Sojourn to Shangri-La last year. Across these three works, Lin continues to push the boundaries of visual storytelling—capturing the psychological states of her characters within physical space with striking precision, and integrating metaphor, mysticism, and abstraction with increasing artistic fluency.

Image is an intuitive, enduring vessel for memory that often lingers in the mind before plot, sparking perception and resonance. Innocent Flesh follows a pregnant woman returning with her female partner to a coastal village in Fujian. Dream and reality entwine in an atmosphere thick with mood and emotion. The film is a quietly textured visual experiment achieved on a modest budget—a testament to the director’s control and craft.

Innocent Flesh is also a proof of concept short to Lin’s feature-in-development of the same name, which was selected for our Debut Narrative Feature Development Lab last year. We wish the director all the best as she prepares for the next stage of production.

– SHEN Wei