IMMIGRATION INITIAL IDEAS

  • 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”

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