April 20, 2023 (Milan, Italy) - The award-winning short film 'Mermaid in the Garden of Escapism' (2023), directed by MAO Yu Lynn Yuan, is recognized by the Robinson Film Festival (RFF) in the magazine review as a Lynch-style film. The director MAO pioneers the use of AI (artificial intelligence) in the film voiceover as a literary reflection on the lack of women’s voices in reality. In RFF magazine's April 2023 issue, this yet-to-be-premiered film is recommended to audiences with respect for David Lynch films because of its meaningfully imaginary movie scenes of metaphor.
"'The Mermaid in the Garden of Escapism' is an experimental short that supports gender equality. The director and writer MAO Yu Lynn Yuan (a.k.a. Lynn Yuan) takes us to a quiet garden with a girl (the actress Gloria Gao) lying on a tablecloth, but a disturbing voice comes into her head, and that quiet garden becomes a nightmare. The 'Mermaid in the Garden of Escapism' is very reminiscent of Master Lynch's style, and this is a huge compliment. As a Lynch movie, the Yuan short film is also open to many interpretations because every change of scene has a different meaning. The abstracted side of the movie deserves a special mention because it involves the viewer seeing that time and time again, and, probably, you can see different things in every rewatch. The choice to add text at the end was really good. 'Mermaid in the Garden of Escapism' is a good short film with a good design and huge pacing", published in RFF magazine's April 2023 issue.
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About the Mermaid in the Garden of Escapism
The director MAO Yu Lynn Yuan introduces her very first award-winning short film, Mermaid in the Garden of Escapism (2023), to support gender equality. This experimental film pioneers the use of AI (artificial intelligence) in the voiceover to draw attention to gender equality as a reflection of the lack of women's voices in reality.
IMDb Film Page: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt27544196
