Prey

China, USA | 6 minutes | 2018 | Animated Short Film | G
中国 美国｜6 分钟｜2018｜动画短片｜G
Canadian Premiere 加拿大首映

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.”

本片取材于古谚语 “螳螂捕蝉，黄雀在后”，讲述了一个关于人类社会与自然循环的故事。

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.

孙晶，动画导演，2012年本科毕业于中国吉林动画学院，2018年研究生毕业于加州州立大学洛杉矶分校。其参与的《猫和老鼠谁将被埋葬》（2012）和作为导演的《种梨》（2016）和《捕食》（2018）等多部艺术动画短片曾获中国动画美猴奖最佳动画短片奖、AOF最佳动画片奖、日本广岛国际动画电影节最佳动画短片奖；入围洛杉矶国际儿童电影节、第85届奥斯卡动画短片、荷兰动画电影节等海内外电影节。