deep

• animation / video: Lieve Vanderschaeve
• music: Xu Fengxia (with André Goudbeek and Joe Fonda)
• 6 min 26 sec
• color DVD
• 4:3

In a dark room, decorated in a classic way with white-blue china plates on the wall, a very deep plate on a dark red table is filled with blue ink. On the plate border, ships of all ages and cultures are depicted In blue glaze. Suddenly a giant squid appears: in the blue ink out of the deep abyssal ocean. The mystery tales of ocean monsters can be spread again. The ships become alive one after another, the kraken hits all...  On a chair at the table in front of the plate, a little boy enjoys this macabre theatre... The  voice of Xu Fengxia, especially her chinese cries, underline this allmighty kid. DIDI(chinese for "little brother,") looks nice and cute, but also naughty and evil...Than the plate starts spinning: the ink disappears , the kraken is gone, the decoration is gone...

Is it all just a game, an imitation, something made in china?