David
大韦
CHINA | 2024 | Animation | Short | 8min
Director: Kai Xue ; Jiexi Hong
Screenwriter: Kai Xue
Executive Producer: Xinyuan Huang, Lei Wang, Ling Liu, Xinrui Wang, Jingwei Chen, Yunpeng Cui
Producer: Bilun Jiang
Cinematographer: Yugao Zheng
Editor: Kai Xue, Jiexi Hong, Wen Zeng
Art Director: Fahua Wang
Sound: Xingyang Wang
Music: Yanzhi Wang
Starring:
Yueming Zhao as Dawei
Boyi Xu as "I"
导演:薛凯 ;洪杰西
编剧:薛凯
监制:黄心渊、王雷、刘灵、王芯蕊、陈京炜、崔蕴鹏
制片:姜碧伦
摄影指导:郑宇高
剪辑:薛凯、洪杰西、曾雯
美术指导:王发花
声音:王兴洋
音乐:王研智
主演:
赵月明 - 大韦
许波一 - “我”
Synopsis
In a small northeastern town, a lost childhood photo. The sound of a train whistle brings memories of running in sunflower fields. I believe another self exists, like Dawei and me.
Festival&Award

Cairo International Film Festival
- Youssef Chahine Award for Best Short Film
Director's Note
Presented as a first-person autobiography, the story recounts “David” with Dawei, from birth until they parted ways. For millennials, fragmented narratives symbolize stagnation in relationships, while fathers' upheavals make us feel as if time and space are rewinding. How do we find our belonging? Via mixed media, the film merges collage, stop-motion, cyanotype, and AI transfer to depict our "birthmarks". The figurative "I" restarts amidst fragmentation, reviving and reuniting us like twins.

Kai Xue ;Jiexi Hong
Kai Xue, graduated from the School of Animation and Digital Arts of Communication University of China. He is dedicated to incorporating diverse media into realist short film.
Jiexi Hong, graduated from the School of Animation and Digital Arts of Communication University of China. She creates mixed-media films exploring millennial retrospection.