Chasing Paper

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Chasing Paper 临考

Genre: Drama
Director: Shoki Lin

23rd Busan International Film Festival, Asian Short Film Competition
2018 Camerimage, Student Etudes Panorama
2018 Tirana International Film Festival Selection

A mother struggles with her moral boundaries while trying to salvage her broken relationship with her daughter.

Score Type: Minimalist

The score for Chasing Paper was composed via two main routes - firstly, recording different sounds and extended techniques of the zhongruan before processing them into different kinds of pads and textures; secondly, by performing on the zhongruan direct to picture.


Zhongruan: Sulwyn Lok
Recording Engineers: Sulwyn Lok and Shoki Lin
Recorded at the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music recording studio and the Nanyang Technological University sound suites.