Cassie Shao
Directing
Biography
Cassie is an Animation + Visual Artist currently based in Los Angeles. She is a graduate of School of the Art Institute of Chicago and School of Cinematic Arts at USC. She works across the field of independent films, music videos, experiential installations and advertising. Cassie chooses to explore and reflect contradictions in herself upon the dream realm. Despite being left often in isolated and growing surreality, her characters are forever unmoved by the situation. She blends together both digital and analogue materials to evoke the otherworldly perspective. She will always praise bathtubs, the spine, and ever insoluble questions.
Known For
Four people soliloquizing in a room.
There Were Four of Us
A fictionalized documentary about a group of artists in residence at the Yaddo Foundation, one of the oldest artist residencies in the USA, located in Saratoga Springs, Upstate New York. Through this film, the group made a collective experiment that deals with the individual experience of the process of creating a masterpiece. As the movie unfolds, the characters go crazy with their own questions, revealing the anguish of artistic creation.
Everybody Dies Trying to Make a Masterpiece
To a friend.
Yuan
This Is a Story Without a Plan envisions two characters witnessing a constant explosion in different fragments of their lives.
This Is a Story Without a Plan
In the chaos, a man flees to the other side of the world only to find out that there is no escape.
Synched
Who am I ? Short animation by Cassie Shao.
A Riddle
Animation by Cassie Shao.