The Film is inspired by the costumes of Taiwan’s folk dance parade “Yi zhen” and ceremonial festivals. Originally adapted from the Southeast Asian folktale ‘The Mousedeer Crosses the River’, the work integrates similar folktale narratives from different countries, to create the half-mousedeer, half-fox shaman puppet dancer in the animation.
Like the fractured perspective of the fly’s compound eyes, the story’s motif leads the audience to travel back and forth through various interlinked narratives from different countries, and know the same thing different position, discussing cultural flow, identity, and the connections between universal and local allegorical experiences.