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THE HARRYIAN THEORY




During my first trip to London, the idea came to me to make my first narrative short film. This will forever remain an unforgettable experience and one I shall surely cherish.

The story was built to reflect my environment and my feelings towards London that I had whilst staying there. I had never before been to a city where the effects of capitalism felt so palpable. The whole mentality was so different from that of Europe and even more so to that of my home country of China.





So thus came the idea for my first short film--We begin with the character Philip who has invited his colleague's spouse, Harry - a young fine-art student - over for dinner under false pretences, with furtive hopes of luring him away from his partner, Tom. He lets Harry believe it is only a matter of time before Tom arrives, with seemingly no plan of telling Harry that Tom is entirely unaware of these supposed dinner plans. In truth, Philip has a misguided idea of how the evening will end. After Harry begins to reveal the details of his relationship with Tom, it only further exemplifies his error of judgement. Regrettably, infatuation has clouded his judgement and caused him to use deceit as a means to an end.
My painting background has given me a preoccupation with valuing what encompasses the frame. I desire to make every second of each composition purposeful by holding on shots long enough for the audience to observe the detail. I specifically designed the storyboard in a way where each cut was already predetermined before the editing process had even begun. It was like composing a series of paintings that all take place in the same environment, but only this time I had to contend with the temporality of moving image.