Dear Kan Kan - Film Still

01 / 05

01 / 05

Dear Kankan

我的朋友陈看看

Hana ZHANG, Eugene LEE

  • 17 min
  • 2025
  • Fiction, Hybrid
  • Mandarin
  • English and Chinese Subtitles

North American Premiere

7th Feinaki Beijing Animation WeekJury’s Choice Award

8:00 PM, MON, NOV 23

Innis Town Hall

Screening + Q&A

Screening with Delay (15 min), Homecoming and Going (20 min), Other Side of a Seesaw (22 min), The Girl Next Door (15 min)

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Every day, I peer through a hole in the wall into the life of my neighbour, Kankan. A cockroach crawling onto a coffee mug; cotton candy from childhood. Memory obeys no order of time, while we remain forever alone within its linear flow.

Director's note:

The story starts with a question I've been wrestling for quite some time: Can someone who has passed away branch out another span of life if we preserve them in our minds day after day? Sometimes, snippets of my childhood that I thought I had forgotten strike me in the most unexpected way. I began to realize that memories were increasingly tethered to who l am today, even those things and people I thought I had long forgotten. That was when the character “Kankan” came into my life.

Directors

Eugene LEE (left) and Hana ZHANG (right)

Hana ZHANG is a Shanghai-based visual artist, filmmaker, and writer with an MFA from Bard College. From her early work in photography and self-publishing to later ventures in installations, moving images, and stop-motion animation, Hana has gradually integrated multiple expressive media in this process, constructing an artistic microcosm that both reflects on herself and observes the changes around her. Her work has been exhibited at the A.I.R. Gallery Biennial, Mana Contemporary, the International Center of Photography, and the Museum of the Moving Image. She was the Grand Prize winner of the 2018 MAP Toulouse Photography Festival and was shortlisted for the Three Shadows Photography Award and the PDN Photo Annual/Exposure Award. Eugene LEE holds an MFA from Bard College. He primarily focuses on audio-visual projects and installations, explores the intangibles of fleeting emotions through his works.

Credits

  • DirectorHana ZHANG, Eugene LEE
  • Principal CastSunny SUN
  • ProducerSONG Dafa, Sunny SUN
  • ScreenplayEugene LEE, Hana ZHANG
  • CinematographerEugene LEE, Luc WU Yikai
  • Production DesignerHana ZHANG, FANG Xueyi, HE Lei (Animation)
  • EditorEugene LEE
  • MusicEugene LEE
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