PIE DAN LO
Director:
Kim Yip Tong
Duration:
13 minutes
Year:
2024
Category:
Short fiction film
Synopsis
On July 25, 2020, the bulk carrier MV Wakashio runs aground on the reef off the East Coast of Mauritius. Twelve days later, oil spills, causing the worst environmental disaster ever to occur in the region.
Country & Language:
Mauritius
Mauritian Creole, English and French
Subtitled in french and english
Production:
Gao Shan Pictures
Gao Shan Animation Studio
We Film
Kim Yip Tong
Multidisciplinary artist from Mauritius. She studied textile design in Paris and London, earning a master’s degree in Information Experience Design from the Royal College of Art in London in 2017. Her current research focuses on natural history and postcolonial identity. Her practice includes kinetic installations, video mapping, painting, artistic direction, and music video production. She has created two planetarium animations, Lucent Matter (2016) and Anthozoa (2017), showcased at international festivals. Her work has been exhibited in various countries, and she is a professor of contemporary art at the ENSA Nantes Maurice School of Architecture.