Alien Human ~ 05:08 | 宇宙人間 (Wen Pang) | 2021-11-30 | China & Japan

Alien Human asks us, “Is human the only species who can hurt each other psychologically?” In Wen Pang’s animated reimagining of a comic series by Yuewei Wang, four short stories are pared down to four fleeting poems—Pearl, The Goldfish, Ocean, and Hole—which are equal parts guided meditation and travelogue. Traversing love, darkness, mystery, and our place in the universe, Alien Human is stirringly transporting. From the first moment the velvety-voiced narrator promises, “If you hold your breath long enough, I’ll take you to another world.” let yourself be moved. A USA premiere in Good Symptom.

About the Artist

宇宙人間 (Wen Pang) tells us, “I really like the "not being categorized" feeling, like an outsider. Words are created by humans to define things, but what cannot be categorized by words is more mysterious and beautiful.” Born in 1996 in Sichuan Province, China, Wen Pang graduated from Central Academy of Fine Arts/Digital Media, China in 2020 and has recently graduated from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, Japan, majoring in animation.