Dance Like a Snail (2021)
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Runtime : 3M
Director : Chloe Yap
Synopsis
The pantun is about a game I (we) used to play pretending to be the characters in invented fairy tales. This time it was a snail. The images of multiplied me are out of time with each other, I give up and try dancing.
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