Yuchen Peng
Half the World is Sleeping
Meilleur court-métrage
Genre : dramatiqueFormat : Court métrage 13:57
Released on : 30 avril 2024
Pays : United Kingdom
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Half the World is Sleeping
Synopsis : Elsa Potts is a mother, grandmother and widow. She has lived a colourful and full life that is slowly being taken from her. Elsa has mid-stage Alzheimer’s disease. Often her world is confusing and chaotic, her only constant being an old family heirloom; a compass from the First World War that belonged to Elsa’s grandfather. Fixated on the compass, Elsa believes it to be lost somewhere in the elevator of her residential building block. There, she stands watch, asking daily commuters for assistance in locating the object. Most people indulge her delusions, including Elsa’s daughter Sarah and her son Oscar, both of whom Elsa does not recognise. However youngest son, Ian is not so forgiving of his mother’s condition and enlists Sarah to help forcibly remove her from the elevator. Elsa panics and lashes out, unknowingly, at her own children. It is only when eldest son James arrives, still fresh in Elsa’s memories, that she abandons her post, leaving her family struggling in her wake.
Yuchen Peng is an independent director, cinematographer and documentarian who mainly focuses on the discourse of culture fusion and social reality. He holds a bachelor’s degree in International Communications from the University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC).