length- 4.20 mins



It is invited in the eighth event of Art-it of Hong Kong Contemporary Art Foundation on 16/05/2017



It is presented in a section of Flatpack Film Festival (2017) at the Victoria in Birmingham.




This is an animation about identity, which is stemmed from my response when people tried to comfort me when I suffered from depression. I believe that we all have a chance to suffer from something. There are always some people trying to comfort you and saying ‘no worries’; ‘just be yourself’; ‘you are just lost’ and ‘find a way back’. Unfortunately, the sense of worry and unhappiness cannot be stopped and I was not comforted. Moreover, I get annoyed with this kind of comfort, even when people say it with the best of intentions. I somehow find it offensive as I believe that there is no fixed self.

I began to explore this understanding from my previous experiences and theoretical courses. This process enabled me to develop my concept further and I finally got the idea to make a 2D drawing animation associated with video filming and stop motion, focusing on the emotion I experience when people try to comfort me when I am struggling and linking this to my interpretation of my identity. ’Thank you but fuck you’, thus, was decided as the title of my animation and its emotional meaning was constructed within the animation which also presented my point of view towards my identity - ‘Who am I? I do not give a shit.

It was influenced by my interest in the idea of ‘liquid modernity’ from Bauman (1995), he points out that identity is not a problem of modernity. Indeed, it was born ‘as a problem’. Hence, it is somehow meaningless to struggle with the questions of whether we are ‘real’ or not, in my view we can never be as ‘real’ as nature.
We are all the same and different at the same time.