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Self Cure

Contact Email Address
n.chang@student.nyfa.edu
Campus
Project Dates
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Positions to fill
Art Dept
Assistant Director
Camera Dept
Directory of Photography
Grip/Electric
Hair/Makeup
Producer
Script Supervisor
Project Description

This is an experimental film.

Logline

A girl who was trapped inside her heart trying to release herself.

Synopsis 

At the beginning, there’s an empty room with darkness. A girl sitting in the corner is being locked by a handcuffs, she has no emotion on her face, and her eye’s color is unnatural. There’s nothing surround her, just a key for unlocked the handcuffs. But she never try to get it, until the moment she falls down on the ground with no energy, she closed her eyes and start the journey in her mind.

Using six poems to represent the whole journey, taking Maslow's hierarchy of needs for refer. Physiological, safety and security, love and belonging, self-esteem, self-actualization. So each poem is one of the needs, also has one extra poem is about everyone has multiple identity.

At the end, she finished her journey in mind and opens her eyes. The journey is as a treatment, she’s having energy again, and decides to take the key and unlock the handcuffs. The moment she’s unlocked, her eyes turn back to her natural color. She shows all her emotions out, starts to dance and scream, she finally release herself.