FOREST COSMOS (in post-production)
written, directed and scored by Chooc Ly Tan
3D animation by Eunjo Lee
4K, 16 minutes
Film completion: Summer 2026
Accompanying EP release: Autumn 2026, on Chinabot
Re-recording Mixer: Panos Chountoulidis
Captions: Eleanor McDowall
FOREST COSMOS is a speculative 3D animated film set in the near future. It launches The Earth is Speaking series, in which the artist converges different strands of their practice – moving image and music composition, into world-building.
In FOREST COSMOS, the story follows a Vietnamese mantis and a human with living sea anemone hair as they move through a rainforest of eye-popping botany. The story explores natural phenomena such as symbiosis*, crypsis**, and bioluminescence, alongside themes of ongoing colonial exploitation and memory. The film drifts between the microscopic and the cosmic, questioning how nonhuman beings might perceive time and space.
*‘Symbiosis’ refers to a mutual relationship or cooperation between different species, such as when organisms depend on one another to survive.
**‘Crypsis’ describes the ability to blend into the environment — camouflage or invisibility — as a survival strategy.
With the upcoming commissioned texts' response to the film by:
Hannah Catherine Jones, april forrest lin 林森, Jacob V Joyce, Sam Sivapragasam and Inigo Wilkins.
With the support of the Art Department Research, Goldsmiths University.
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written, directed and scored by Chooc Ly Tan
3D animation by Eunjo Lee
4K, 16 minutes
Film completion: Summer 2026
Accompanying EP release: Autumn 2026, on Chinabot
Re-recording Mixer: Panos Chountoulidis
Captions: Eleanor McDowall
FOREST COSMOS is a speculative 3D animated film set in the near future. It launches The Earth is Speaking series, in which the artist converges different strands of their practice – moving image and music composition, into world-building.
In FOREST COSMOS, the story follows a Vietnamese mantis and a human with living sea anemone hair as they move through a rainforest of eye-popping botany. The story explores natural phenomena such as symbiosis*, crypsis**, and bioluminescence, alongside themes of ongoing colonial exploitation and memory. The film drifts between the microscopic and the cosmic, questioning how nonhuman beings might perceive time and space.
*‘Symbiosis’ refers to a mutual relationship or cooperation between different species, such as when organisms depend on one another to survive.
**‘Crypsis’ describes the ability to blend into the environment — camouflage or invisibility — as a survival strategy.
With the upcoming commissioned texts' response to the film by:
Hannah Catherine Jones, april forrest lin 林森, Jacob V Joyce, Sam Sivapragasam and Inigo Wilkins.
With the support of the Art Department Research, Goldsmiths University.
🔊please have the sound on!
→ 1 min. Trailer on IG for the Pre-Preview at PAF Olomouc. Enjoy the ride!
FOREST COSMOS
Short film, 4K, 16min
🧠🎻written, directed and scored by Chooc Ly Tan
💫🔭3D animation by Eunjo Lee @eunjo.lee
Pre-Preview this weekend at
PAF Olomouc 2025 24th Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art Olomouc, Czech Republic December 4 - 7, 2025 @pafpafpafpafpafpafpaf
at « Mirages », a series of screenings programmed by @A_____Z
An EP of the score will be released next year 2026 on the Chinabot @chinabotasia label with the support from the Art Department Research, Goldsmiths university @artresearchgold
Short film, 4K, 16min
🧠🎻written, directed and scored by Chooc Ly Tan
💫🔭3D animation by Eunjo Lee @eunjo.lee
Pre-Preview this weekend at
PAF Olomouc 2025 24th Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art Olomouc, Czech Republic December 4 - 7, 2025 @pafpafpafpafpafpafpaf
at « Mirages », a series of screenings programmed by @A_____Z
An EP of the score will be released next year 2026 on the Chinabot @chinabotasia label with the support from the Art Department Research, Goldsmiths university @artresearchgold
