starts off with a phone call to my mum, mundane conversation
a voice over
this is a stereotypical story for people in my shoes
I’ve always resented my mum, for quote on quote ruining my childhood. Forcing me into one of those shy, under spoken, picked on immigrant child. She owes me a “normal” high school experience.
The lack of understanding we have for each accelerated this unhealthy mother daughter relationship, I’ve always wanted her to change for me because I thought it is her problem not mine.
one of the most vulnerable memories I have as a kid was walking into my mother’s room to find her sobbing, crawled up on the floor, like a child herself. Growing up, I try to block this memory from resurfacing because I cannot fathom the idea of my mum having this emotion.
but the older I get the more I realise, she’s not a perfect mother and I am certainly not a perfect daughter. I start to realise that what we need is acceptance and not change.
she will continue to repeat the same thing I have heard a million times and I will still have no patience to listen to the same thing that she said a million times. But this is our relationship.
I have also had this wish where I thought moving out of my family home would automatically solve all of our issues but our issues cannot be solved by distance, I start to realise. But by understanding, I don’t know if my mum will ever have this realisation but I think just one person is enough to make a difference.
i had always been jealoused of my friends’ relationship with their parents, more like friends
interviews of different people and their relationship with their mums
a mundane phone call with mum or a compliation of phone calls mixed in with conversations
synopsis: a series of mundane conversations over the phone that slowly shapes a growing mother and daughter relationship.
OR: a series of mundane conversations over the phone that showcases the story of a ambiguous mother and daughter relationship in the a immigrant family.
This animation should not be ‘a result of’, instead I want it to show the progress of our relationship. Maybe in the name of this animation project, I can spend more time ‘fixing’ or understanding our relationship.
“mother and daughter opens up about the experience of immigration for the first time”
name: “An Immigrant’s story”
a conversation with mum talking about…
boring things
her experience of moving to the UK
the story of Chinese immigrant kids, specifically about the big move across the country?
“I remember first seeing her, she was just like a stranger”