Hometopia
ANIMATION
2022
1'52"
COLOUR
SOUND
Synopsis Hometopia briefly reflects upon the ubiquitous but wildly despised British council housing system. The animation takes on the tone of a child's fairy tale, depicting the bizarre experience of entering a dazzling estate and later getting lost in an illusionary utopian world.
About Filmmaker
Xiaoyu Ma is a visual artist from Hangzhou, China, living and working in London. Her work specialises in communicating absurdity in relationalism. She studied art direction and visual communication at the University of the Arts London and the Royal College of Art.
Xiao focuses on locating herself somewhere in the crack between the West and what it perceives as "foreign"—exploring the physical and the virtual realms; she constructs perceptions around her while exploring her own self with attempts at endowing different gazes unto everyday objects. She investigates the materiality of visual culture and its potential through distortion, reproduction,
and the deconstruction of media and its mediums.