Apple – Shot on iPhone 15 Pro Max – Chinese New Year – Little Garlic
Short Film, Asia, Performance, Family, Emotive, Business, Characters, Editing, Social Media Usage, Time passing, Children/kids, Growing up, in celebration of Chinese New Year, a Character story about a young girl who has a special shapeshifting ability trying to find herself in the big city and finally returning to her own shape by the encouragement of her loving Grandfather, deciding who to be and the finally settling on being herself, emotional subtext of finding your Self, a canal in a suburban neighborhood in China, a little girl looking at beautiful women in magazines, little girl looking at herself in the mirror, Chinese garden, Chinese home, grandfather plaiting daughter’s hair, little girl with glasses, wanting to play with other girls at the school playground, playing jump rope, being bullied by other school girls, running home, jumping into the cupboard, grandfather talking to little girl through cupboard screen door, opens door and gets a shock when she’s turned into a different person, eating noodles in a very excited way, locked off shot of grandfather looking worried as she changes shape around him into different types of women and different shapes and faces, grandfather and granddaughter having a heart to heart chat, growing up in a cut, going away to the big city, skyscrapers, city buildings, highways, Shanghai, moving into an apartment, posting to social media, emojis and likes, the effect of social media, in an empty city building, two people are silhouetted, going for job interviews, trying to get somewhere in the corporate world, trying to get a waiter’s attention in a restaurant, sitting on a bench in the park, being ignored, trying to join a basketball match, turning into different people in order to fit in, turning into a beautiful woman just before walking into a nightclub, walking past the queue at a nightclub, turning into a young man and getting a corporate job, dancing in a nightclub, playing basketball, time passing, with grandfather marking off the days, a group of older women in a restaurant having fun together, delivery guy arrives at the door of grandfather’s home, delivering a package, grandfather comes to visit, different characters looking at themselves in a bathroom mirror as she tries to turn back into herself, making steamed bun with her grandfather in the kitchen, younger version of herself talking to her, returning to her original shape and form, heartwarming

Director: Marc Webb