走 (zǒu)
Hannah Wu
United Kingdom,
English,
Mandarin Chinese,
00:03:31
A journey through the pages of my mother’s old Chinese-English dictionary. Combining ink drawings on paper with direct animation on 35mm film, various definitions of the Chinese character for ‘walk’ take on meanings in turn literal, historical, personal and abstract. An experimental animated short about language, meaning and moving through the world (one drawing at a time).
- Language English, Mandarin Chinese
- Country United Kingdom
- Genre
- Year of creation 2025
- Duration 00:03:31
Hannah Wu is an artist and animator from London. Her work seeks to expand animation's cross-cultural possibilities, exploring ideas around language and identity through tactile analogue processes. She graduated from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Animation in 2025. In March 2026, she was awarded an artist residency at MuseumsQuartier, Vienna.
