Cassie Shao

Historia

Cassie is an Animation + Visual Artist currently based in Los Angeles. She is a graduate of School of the Art Institute of Chicago and School of Cinematic Arts at USC. She works across the field of independent films, music videos, experiential installations and advertising. Cassie chooses to explore and reflect contradictions in herself upon the dream realm. Despite being left often in isolated and growing surreality, her characters are forever unmoved by the situation. She blends together both digital and analogue materials to evoke the otherworldly perspective. She will always praise bathtubs, the spine, and ever insoluble questions. ​

Películas

This Is a Story Without a Plan
Director
Everybody Dies Trying to Make a Masterpiece
A fictionalized documentary about a group of artists in residence at the Yaddo Foundation, one of the oldest artist residencies in the USA, located in Saratoga Springs, Upstate New York. Through this film, the group made a collective experiment that deals with the individual experience of the process of creating a masterpiece. As the movie unfolds, the characters go crazy with their own questions, revealing the anguish of artistic creation.
I'm Not Ready
Director
Animation by Cassie Shao.
There Were Four of Us
Four people soliloquizing in a room.
There Were Four of Us
Writer
Four people soliloquizing in a room.
There Were Four of Us
Director
Four people soliloquizing in a room.
Synched
Director
In the chaos, a man flees to the other side of the world only to find out that there is no escape.
Synched
Animation
In the chaos, a man flees to the other side of the world only to find out that there is no escape.
Yuan
Animation
To a friend.
Yuan
Director
To a friend.
Yuan
Voice
To a friend.
A Riddle
Animation
Who am I ? Short animation by Cassie Shao.
A Riddle
Director
Who am I ? Short animation by Cassie Shao.