Jerrold Chong

Historia

Director/animator Jerrold Chong graduated in 2016 with a BFA in Animation at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). An avid lover of cinema, he is fascinated by the power of animated cinema as abstract visual metaphor and is driven by a desire to tell sincere stories that examines the depths of everyday life and the complexities of the human experience. Currently based in Singapore, Jerrold has interned at Zhao Wei Films, assisting on live-action feature films including Eric Khoo’s In The Room and Boo Junfeng’s Apprentice. He also worked as an animation intern in Charlie Kaufman and Duke Johnson’s stop-motion feature Anomalisa. His films have screened at numerous international film festivals, including the Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival in Bristol, Animatricks Animation Festival in Helsinski, Short Shorts Film Festival in Tokyo, Singapore International Film Festival, Bucheon International Animation Festival in Korea. In 2015, his film “Nascent” was awarded the Best Animation Award at Singapore Short Film Awards. He also participated in the CalArts-Doc’s Kingdom International Seminar on Documentary Film in Azores, Portugal.

Películas

The Visit
The Visit
Animation
THE VISIT is an intimate stop-motion short film about a young girl’s growing-up years and her relationship with her incarcerated father.
The Visit
The Visit
Producer
THE VISIT is an intimate stop-motion short film about a young girl’s growing-up years and her relationship with her incarcerated father.
Tiong Bahru Social Club
Tiong Bahru Social Club
Animation
Ah Bee goes on a comedic odyssey through Tiong Bahru Social Club, a data-driven project to create the happiest neighborhood in the world. Little by little, his encounters with the neighborhood's residents reveal the absurdity of life.
Piece of Meat
Piece of Meat
Screenplay
Enslaved in a surreal world of living objects, a lamb cutlet does whatever it takes to make ends meet.
Piece of Meat
Piece of Meat
Director
Enslaved in a surreal world of living objects, a lamb cutlet does whatever it takes to make ends meet.
Automatonomy
Automatonomy
Animation
In a dystopian sci-fi society amidst social unrest between Humans and Automatons, an orphan rescues an injured girl from the rumble of violence. As they hide out together in a bunker-like room, their burgeoning friendship gets tested as external forces threaten to fracture how one sees the Other.
Automatonomy
Automatonomy
Writer
In a dystopian sci-fi society amidst social unrest between Humans and Automatons, an orphan rescues an injured girl from the rumble of violence. As they hide out together in a bunker-like room, their burgeoning friendship gets tested as external forces threaten to fracture how one sees the Other.
Automatonomy
Automatonomy
Director
In a dystopian sci-fi society amidst social unrest between Humans and Automatons, an orphan rescues an injured girl from the rumble of violence. As they hide out together in a bunker-like room, their burgeoning friendship gets tested as external forces threaten to fracture how one sees the Other.
Ways Of Seeing
Ways Of Seeing
Writer
Rumble of train rails; Crashing of ocean waves; Soft caress of distant wind. Two people. Two ways of perceiving the world.
Ways Of Seeing
Ways Of Seeing
Animation
Rumble of train rails; Crashing of ocean waves; Soft caress of distant wind. Two people. Two ways of perceiving the world.
Ways Of Seeing
Ways Of Seeing
Director
Rumble of train rails; Crashing of ocean waves; Soft caress of distant wind. Two people. Two ways of perceiving the world.