ZEBRA
UK | 2023 | B&W 35 mm film | 10 min | Production Design Team
Short Film, Drama
In this dystopian retro future, strange black-and-white striped sunglasses, fear-mongering posters, and hi-tech surveillance cameras fill the streets. Rogue, a recent college-grad feels hopeful about his career and makes it to his second interview at a reputable company. While reporting the news to his mother, he is taken abruptly by Catchers to a strange treatment facility center, alongside two other bystanders: Lucy - a conservative elder woman, and Norman - a homeless man. The three are taken for seeing the forbidden ‘Zebra.’ While in the Treatment Center, Rogue initially obeys the Catchers, as per Lucy’s advice. He takes the pills, folds the propaganda pamphlets, and remains respectful to the Catchers. However, he soon begins to learn that he will in fact not make it to his second interview when he is held longer than he expected. He learns from Norman that the Zebra is not alive, and that the Government is cruel. He rebels with Norman. They are both electrocuted. Rogue is left alone in the treatment center and succumbs to its power. He is released. He returns back to the bus stop, not having remembered the preceding events. He finds a note in his pocket, secretly placed there by Norman. It’s a drawing of the Zebra.
Role: Production Design Team.
CAST:
Christian Stevens
Corinne Strickett
Malcolm Jeffries
Alexander Howard
Tyler Smith
Abdul Rehman
David Harcombe
CREW:
Written and directed by Jing Wen
Producer: Carina Tamer
Cinematographer:Ziheng Wang
Camera Operator: Qun Xing
Editor:Honghan Fu
Production Designers: Li Hsing Wei, Ana Graça,Yilun Zhao, Tzu Ting Huang, Ruiqi Zhang, Lu Zhong
Script Editor: Shibani Rathnam
First AD: Xuepiao Hu, Shengyuan Tong
Production Managers: Furui Cao, Valeria Kunina
Production Assistants: Michal Guja, Ivy He, Hui Long
1st AC: Haicheng Zhang, Meng Xie, Bethany Yang, Weiheng Chen
2nd AC: Ouyang Jiao, Haicheng Zhang, Atharva Puranik, Xinle Ding, Linlin Zhang, Alice Shiyuan Guo
Grip: Ciel Zhang, Boting Xie, Billie Liao
Gaffer: Anbo Wu (location), Yu Chao Tsai (studio), Albert Owsiejew (studio)
Spark: Mingwei Zhang, Chuan An Kuo, Kejiu Shi , Yuhong Zhou, Voy Bach, Linlin Zhang, Boting Xie, Parker Donaldson, Yican Zheng, Albert Owsiejew, Chien Han Lai, Yiou Shi , Yichao Chen
Boom Operator: Aide Sun, Daniel Claro, Xiao Xiao Xu, Zechuan Wang, Yutong Lin
MUA: Nafisa Yarasheva, Estelle Stitt, Ruiqi Zhang, Ana Graça
Script Supervisor: Yilun Zhao, Christie Arnold, Cheng Jin, Issy Halpin
Sound Designer: Yu Chao Tsai, Honghan Fu
Sound Mixer: Jake Roberts, Yu Chao Tsai
Composer: Alessandro Giovanetto
Colorist: Dominic Phipps
BTS Photographers: Xianzhi Lin, Qihao Mai, Kaipeng Tang, Yuchen Liu
