Secret Garden (2024 Short Film)

Directed by: Yihui Hu

Production Designer: Sarah Agolia

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 As a young girl gets lost in a garden, she grows close to a young boy while being physically separated by a glass wall. Between the two friends, the glass symbolizes the permanent barrier between the two individuals. As the young girl discovers herself, the friendship and her idyllic world start to shatter. 

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The primary location, the greenhouse, utilized soft colors like purple and white to represent an innocence and peaceful relationship between the two characters. The other location, a hospital room, is characterized by a sterile uncomfortable setting that seems to be desperate to present a sense of comfort. As the story progresses, clors become dirty and uncomfortable to reveal a perfect place becoming something like a bad dream.