Skin Deep - Short Film

Skin Deep by Lulu Jiang is a film that fuses live action and illustration to explore a layered romance about tattoos and their power to psychologically seduce. Using multiple viewpoints and stories nested within one another, hand-drawn tattoo flash is digitized and composited to create a gritty tone from exotically inked images. The film’s juxtaposition of reality and fantasy takes the viewer on a journey that twists and turns to disguise a jaw-dropping ending.

This world, which offers so much idle time, so little challenge, and no real hope, inspires convicts to choose any possible means of expressing themselves. They use their bodies like a canvas, a confessional, an instrument of private communication. In order to establish the identity necessary to survive, they tag themselves with tattoos.[1]

[1] Gay, Kathlyn, and Christine Whittington. Body Marks: Tattooing, Piercing, and Scarification. Brookfield, CT: Millbrook, 2002. Print.

AWARDS:

2017 Experimental Forum 2017 Official Selection

2017 Stockholm Independent Film Festival

2017 Arizona International Film Festival

2016 Semifinalist, Adobe Design Achievement Awards.

2016 New York International Film Festival

2016 Monmouth Film Festival Official Selection

2016 Locomocion / Experimental Animation Festival Official Selection

2016 Nightmares Film Festival Official Selection

2016 Los Angeles CineFest

2016 California Film Awards Golden Awards