Description
The House Turning Off Its Lights is a dreamcore short film for a mother who can no longer hold on to her memories: a way to carry out the last light before the lights of her memory go out one by one.
In the film, a mother's memory becomes a house that is turning off its lights. Each time she forgets something, the light in one room goes out for good. The hallway stretches on without end, and door frames vanish one after another. The furniture is covered in dust that looks like both snow and ash, the floor turns into shallow water, and the water reflects a Shanghai alley in 1998. A telephone hangs in midair, and the receiver plays a recording of her asking, again and again, "Have you eaten?", her voice growing slower and lower. An old comb floats in the air, the hair caught in its teeth still growing. An unfinished sweater knits its own last stitch, and the stitches spell out "I don't remember, but I love you."
In the end, only one light is left breathing in the bedroom. The moment it goes out, the comb in the protagonist's hand lights up: he has become that light. White Arial text appears at the end: "You forgot. I remember. From now on, I am that light." It is a story of guardianship reversed: the mother once remembered everything, and now it is his turn to remember for her.
The film uses low-poly, plastic-looking, non-realistic characters with blurry textures, set against a dreamcore palette of faded pastels and old-hospital green, to show memory fading away. For the modeling, Tripo took the place of traditional modeling software.
How Tripo was used
Tripo replaced traditional modeling software for the film's 3D modeling.
