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STILLTURN | CalArts 2025

Coming to terms with what hasn't worked and what will never work. This is my final film at CalArts! In the spirit of trying to imbue every ounce of my insecurity and fear into the main character, Hosanna, this is my vaguest film yet. I’m gonna be really pretentious about my silly film here… Trying to find complete happiness, the meaning of life, whatever it is you were put on earth to do, to be, is a fruitless task in the end, Hosanna finds. There is nothing worse than focusing on a single solution for a perceived problem because it only led to her disappointment, and it was only when she gave up trying to bring back and relive happiness she felt in the past, that she could finally realize that she didn’t need the music box to hear the tune, she could sing it herself. To me, this is about many things. It’s about falling out of love with art as a career, and becoming disillusioned with creating. I thought that if I just kept doing this one thing, I would be happy forever. Art brings me a different kind of joy than it did in my childhood, but I find that’s ok. I’m not going to keep trying to replicate that initial feeling anymore. I think another way I looked at it was through a lens of identity. Hosanna was taught in the beginning from her mother what she ought to want for herself and what it looks like to be ‘’normal”. She learns from her peers what she is supposed to be, and thinks she’s the only one left behind. She spends her whole life chasing that which never serves her. It is only when she lets go that she finds the mold she kept trying to fit herself into looks so silly in hindsight. Of course, to you, it can be about anything. I’ve been enjoying reading the interpretations people come up with - I’m so touched and humbled to know that people ascribe their own meaning in my work!! The title could be taken to mean the literal action of the music box - a still fixture that rotates. But to wax a little more poetic, it is also like Stillborn - like how I feel Hosanna's hopes of finding happiness have died in the womb before their fruition - but also like Still turning - how the music will go on anyway even when its vessel has shattered. I made this film to say that I've been really scared about the future, but hopefully, one day, even if my worst fears come true, the world will still keep on turning. ..... This film was created by the joined forces of my kind, wonderful and talented colleagues: Finn Falk, Jennifer Shi, Jay Tan and Jeremy Tsujita - who rendered out the CLEANEST most BEAUTIFUL and ON MODEL animation in the world. A. Fix Hervier, Myriam Lemonnier, Cat Song, Esther Zhu and Tabs Wekerle - who came in clutch in the last week/days/hours of crunch time to help me clean up and color my animation. This film would look like a powerpoint without you. Raziel Ortiz - who did the incredible workshop/study room backgrounds while Hosanna scribbles maniacally. Thet Chal - for lending me your godlike CG abilities to model the music box. My life would be so much more difficult and painful and horrible without you. Mate Satalich - most responsible, compassionate, hardworking and all around normal ass guy. Thank you so much for composing my music these last three years, you are so lovely to work with. Shane Vincent - my awesome and diligent sound designer who tolerated my 5am emails. Thank you for being so detailed in your work and not leaving a single fabric movement sound behind. Rhiannon Lewis - the voice of Hosanna who got the vibe of my film immediately first try, whose lovely singing voice I will always remember and keep coming back to. Kyou Shimazaki - for your rough animation, cleanup, color, and being by me every step of the process. Thank you for getting me out of bed when I really didn't want to keep working on this. Thank you also for your unwavering support and for being an anchor in my life. I love you! :] ..... A bittersweet goodbye to CalArts! I will always cherish the friends I've made here. Hello No Bones Day, hello Scavenger Hunt Cancelled, let's never stop hanging out forever and ever ..... Portfolio: https://ritachenart.weebly.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pendragonfr... Twitter: https://x.com/pendragon_fruit Watch other films made by my classmates:    • 2025 CalArts Character Animation Student F...